The enormous number of questions needed to acquire a full preference model when the size of the outcome space is large forces us to work with partial models that approximate the u...
Voting is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. Each agent ranks all the possible alternatives, and based on this, an aggregate ranking of the alter...
Abstract. Very often a planning problem can be formulated as a ranking problem: i.e. to find an order relation over a set of alternatives. The ranking of a finite set of alternat...
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Combinatorial auctions, where agents can bid on bundles of items (resources, tasks, etc.), are desirable because the agents can express complementarity and substitutability among ...