Table II.

MAUT Aggregation models (n = 3)

ModelFormula
Additive with linear value functionu(x) = w1x1 + w2x2 + w3x3
Additiveu(x) = w1u1(x)1 + w2u2(x2) + w3u2(x3)
Multiplicative (extended)u(x) = w1u1(x1) + w2u2(x2) + w3u2(x3)
+ ww1w2u1(x1)u2(x2)
+ ww1w3u1(x1)u3(x3)
+ ww2w3u2(x2)u3(x3)
+ w2w1w2w3u1(x)1u2(x2)u3(x3)
Multiplicative (compact)1 + wu(x) = [1 + ww1u1(x1)][1 + ww2u2(x2)]
[1 + ww3u3(x3)]
Multi-linearu(x) = w1u1(x1) + w2u2(x2) + ww3u3(x3)
+ w1,2u1(x1)u2(x2)
+ w1,3u1(x1)u3(x3)
+ w2,3u2(x2)u3(x3)
+ w1,2,3u1(x1)u2(x2)u3(x3)

Notes:

u: Overall value function; x: Evaluation object; xi: Measurement (level, degree) of x on attribute i; ui: Single-attribute value function; wi: Weight of attribute i

Source: Von Winterfeldt and Edwards (1986) 

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