Game theory with ordinal data inputs
Jun Feng · 2002
In many social or political science problems, the personal subjective preference information can be the result from qualitative analysis, which is difficult to be expressed in the utility form, but can be expressed in ordinal form. Based upon ordinal preference information the decision makers expressed, instead of the payoff function or utility level, this paper developed a rank ordering based game theory or model, proposed some concepts of rank ordering equilibrium, and gave some numerical demonstrations. This new game theory could be considered as the necessary and valuable generalization and supplement to the traditional utility or payoff based game theory.