著者

犬童 健良

出版者

関東学園大学

雑誌

関東学園大学経済学紀要 (ISSN:13451588)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.41, pp.32-63, 2016-03-31

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J. Edmonds and D. R. Fulkerson defined a blocking system as a pair of subset families, i.e., a clutter and a blocker, in which the bottleneck theorem holds true (Journal of Combinatorial Theory, 1990, 8(3), 299-306). Blocking systems have been studied in several combinatorial problems, such as those including graph, matroid, network flow, optimal assignment, and multi-person games. In this study, blocking systems are applied to cognitive modeling of a single decision maker. The domain of the blocking system corresponds to aspects in the multi-dimensional comparison of alternatives, and the models are discussed including choice under risk, consumer brand choice, and reasoning task.