2022/10/13 by Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Annaswamy, Anuradha M., Vineet Jagadeesan Nair +1
Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #Complex Systems and Decision Making #FOS: Economics and business #FOS: Electrical engineering #General Economics (econ.GN) #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #Transportation Planning and Optimization #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.07322
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Several examples of Cyber-physical human systems (CPHS) include real-time decisions from humans as a necessary building block for the successful performance of the overall system. Many of these decision-making problems necessitate an appropriate model of human behavior. Tools from Utility Theory have been used successfully in several problems in transportation for resource allocation and balance of supply and demand \citepben1985discrete. More recently, Prospect Theory has been demonstrated as a useful tool in behavioral economics and cognitive psychology for deriving human behavioral models that characterize their subjective decision-making in the presence of stochastic uncertainties and risks, as an alternative to conventional Utility Theory \citepkahnemanprospect2012. These models will be described in this article. Theoretical implications of Prospect Theory are also discussed. Examples will be drawn from transportation use cases such as shared mobility to illustrate these models as well as the distinctions between Utility Theory and Prospect Theory.