Paper:
Semiatoms in Choquet Integral Models of Multiattribute Decision Making
Toshiaki Murofushi
Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259-G3-47 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
The semiatom is characterized in terms of the multiattribute preference relation represented by a Choquet integral. It is concluded from the characterization that the proper semiatom, the semiatom which is not an atom, is pathological in multiattribute decision making.