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T1 Preferences stability: A measure of preferences changes over time
A1 Andrés Calle, Rocío de
A1 Cascón Barbero, José Manuel
A1 González Arteaga, María Teresa
K1 Preference stability. Decision stability. Complete pre-orders. Loss memory effect
AB Traditionally, preferences have been considered stable although there are growing evidences that such stability is a mere theoretical assumption. Attending to this fact, it should be interesting to measure how much stability preferences provide in order to improve decision making processes. Surprisingly, no research has been found on measuring preferences stability.To overcome this drawback, this paper proposes a novel approach for measuring the stability of preferences and also for improving understanding of current and future decisions. In order to be faithful to reality, this research considers decisions like complete pre-orders on a set of alternatives. Following this reasoning, this paper provides the general concept of decision stability measure as well as two specific measures: the local and the global decision stability measure. Moreover, the main features of the novel approach are examined, including several mathematical results on the behaviour of the proposed measure. And eventually, this contribution develops two real cases of study, with in-depth analysis of preferences behaviour and their stability over time. Specifically, the first one explores into the characteristics of Spanish citizens' voting behaviour and the second one attempts to analyse European citizens' preferences about passenger car market.
PB Elsevier
SN 0167-9236
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40545
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40545
LA eng
NO Decision Support Systems, Volume 129, 2020, 113169,
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024