ISSN:
1572-9338
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mathematics
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Economics
Notes:
Abstract In this paper, we study the existence, construction and reconstruction of fuzzy preferencestructures. Starting from the definition of a classical preference structure, we propose anatural definition of a fuzzy preference structure, merely requiring the fuzzification of theset operations involved. Upon evaluating the existence of these structures, we discover thatthe idea of fuzzy preferences is best captured when fuzzy preference structures are definedusing a L Ú ukasiewicz triplet. We then proceed to investigate the role of the completenesscondition in these structures. This rather extensive investigation leads to the proposal of astrongest completeness condition, and results in the definition of a one-parameter class offuzzy preference structures. Invoking earlier results by Fodor and Roubens, the constructionof these structures from a reflexive binary fuzzy relation is then easily obtained. Thereconstruction of such a structure from its fuzzy large preference relation inevitable toobtain a full characterization of these structures in analogy to the classical case is morecumbersome. The main result of this paper is the discovery of a non-trivial characterizingcondition that enables us to fully characterize the members of a two-parameter class offuzzy preference structures in terms of their fuzzy large preference relation. As a remarkableside-result, we discover three limit classes of characterizable fuzzy preference structures,traces of which are found throughout the preference modelling literature.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018903628661
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