Arthur Van Camp

Sets of Desirable Gamble Sets and their Representations as Information Algebras

Justyna Dąbrowska, Arthur Van Camp and Erik Quaghebeur

(SMPS 2026), Sept 2026.

IJAR Best Paper Award.

Abstract

We study sets of desirable gamble sets, which are closely related to choice functions, from the perspective of information algebras, which is a framework for reasoning with partial information in a multivariate setting. We show that closed sets of desirable gamble sets, as well as their representations consisting of sets of closed sets of desirable gambles, form information algebras. For a natural map between these algebras, the marginalisation and combination operators commute. Finally, we prove that this mapping is indeed a homomorphism, guaranteeing that the two algebras contain the same information and induce the same marginalisation and combination operators.