An evidential Markov decision making model

DOI10.1016/J.INS.2018.08.013zbMATH Open1450.62100arXiv1705.06578OpenAlexW2963530201MaRDI QIDQ2200593FDOQ2200593

Authors: Zichang He, Wen Jiang 

Publication date: 22 September 2020

Published in: Information Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The sure thing principle and the law of total probability are basic laws in classic probability theory. A disjunction fallacy leads to the violation of these two classical laws. In this paper, an Evidential Markov (EM) decision making model based on Dempster-Shafer (D-S) evidence theory and Markov modelling is proposed to address this issue and model the real human decision-making process. In an evidential framework, the states are extended by introducing an uncertain state which represents the hesitance of a decision maker. The classical Markov model can not produce the disjunction effect, which assumes that a decision has to be certain at one time. However, the state is allowed to be uncertain in the EM model before the final decision is made. An extra uncertainty degree parameter is defined by a belief entropy, named Deng entropy, to assignment the basic probability assignment of the uncertain state, which is the key to predict the disjunction effect. A classical categorization decision-making experiment is used to illustrate the effectiveness and validity of EM model. The disjunction effect can be well predicted and the free parameters are less compared with the existing models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06578

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zbMATH Keywords

sure-thing principleDempster-Shafer evidence theorydisjunction effectlaw of total probabilityevidential Markov modelMarkov decision making model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Compound decision problems in statistical decision theory (62C25) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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