Selected Publications

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Jonathan Barzilai, On Microeconomics Errors and Ordinal Group Decision Making, pp. 1 – 6, January 2012. View

Jonathan Barzilai, The Challenge of Foundational Errors in Economic and Game Theory, pp. 1 – 3. A discussion paper, Lorentz Center workshop "Error in the Sciences," October 2011. View

Lex A. van Gunsteren, Economic Theory and the Reality Test, Lorentz Center workshop "Error in the Sciences," Leiden, October 2011. View

Jonathan Barzilai, On Microeconomics Errors and Ordinal Group Decision Making, pp. 1 – 4, October 2011. View

Jonathan Barzilai, On Ordinal, Cardinal, and Expected Utility, pp. 1 – 6, 2011. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Correcting the Mathematical Foundations of the Social & Economic Sciences, NSF White Paper, September 2010. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Von Neumann’s Error, CORS-SCRO Bulletin, Vol. 44 No. 4, pp. 23 – 24, November 2010. View

Jonathan Barzilai, “Preference Function Modeling: The Mathematical Foundations of Decision Theory,” in Trends in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, Matthias Ehrgott, José Rui Figueira, and Salvatore Greco (Eds.), Springer, pp. 57 – 86, 2010. View pre-print

Jonathan Barzilai, Economic Theory Errors, pp. 1-5, 2009. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Ordinal Utility and Indifference Curves, Technical Report, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, pp. 1 – 7, 2009. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Game Theory Foundational Errors – Part IV, Technical Report, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, pp. 1-4, 2009. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Game Theory Foundational Errors – Part III, Technical Report, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, pp. 1-4, 2009. View

Jonathan Barzilai, “Avoiding MCDA Evaluation Pitfalls,” in Real Time and Deliberative Decision Making, Igor Linkov, Elizabeth Ferguson, Victor S. Magar (Eds.), NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C – Environmental Security, Springer, pp. 349-353, 2008. View Preprint

Jonathan Barzilai, Game Theory Foundational Errors – Part II, Technical Report, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, pp. 1-9, 2008. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Value of a Game, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 55, No. 4, p. 446, April 2008. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Preference Function Modeling (PFM): The Mathematical Foundations of Decision Theory, Technical Report, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, pp. 1-16, 2008. View

Jonathan Barzilai, On the Mathematical Foundations of Economic Theory, Technical Report, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, pp. 1-13, 2007. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Game Theory Foundational Errors and the Mathematical Foundations of Operations Research, CORS-SCRO Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 42-43, November 2007. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Game Theory Foundational Errors – Part I, Technical Report, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, pp. 1-2, 2007. View

Jonathan Barzilai, A Game Theory Pitfall – ‘The Value of a Game’, CORS-SCRO Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 3, p. 44, July 2007. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Pairwise Comparisons, in N.J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics, Sage Publications (Thousand Oaks, CA), Vol. II, pp. 726-727, 2007.

Jonathan Barzilai, On the Mathematical Modeling of Measurement, http://arxiv.org/, math.GM/0609555, pp. 1-4, 2006. View

Jonathan Barzilai, Preference Modeling in Engineering Design, in Decision Making in Engineering Design, K.E. Lewis, W. Chen and L.C. Schmidt (Eds.), ASME Press, pp. 43-47, 2006.

Jonathan Barzilai, Measurement and Preference Function Modeling, International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol. 12, pp. 173-183, 2005.

Jonathan Barzilai, Notes on Utility Theory, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 1000-1005, 2004.

Jonathan Barzilai, Notes on the Analytic Hierarchy Process, Proceedings of the NSF Design and Manufacturing Research Conference, Tampa, Florida, pp. 1-6, 2001. View

Jonathan Barzilai, On the Decomposition of Value Functions, Operations Research Letters, Vol. 22, Nos. 4-5, pp. 159-170, 1998.

Jonathan Barzilai, Deriving Weights from Pairwise Comparison Matrices, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 48, No. 12, pp. 1226-1232, 1997.


Recent

NEW: Ordinal Group Decision Making

Error in the Sciences workshop

The Reality Test

On Ordinal, Cardinal, and Expected Utility


The Foundations

Decision Theory Errors

Economic Theory Errors

Game Theory Errors

Measurement Theory Errors


Software

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Tetra Quickstart Guide

Tetra Online Documentation


Algorithms

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Video

Ordinal Utility and Indifference Curves

Von Neumann's Error

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