COLT
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we initiate an exploration of relationships between “preference elicitation”, a learning-style problem that arises in combinatorial auctions, and the pr...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
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...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
We consider the problem of minimizing preference elicitation in efficient multiattribute auctions, that support dynamic negotiation over non-price based attributes such as qualit...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Combinatorial auctions, where bidders can submit bids on bundles of items, are economically efficient mechanisms for selling items to bidders, and are attractive when the bidders...
KR
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper deals with preference representation and elicitation in the context of multiattribute utility theory under risk. Assuming the decision maker behaves according to the EU...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
The development of autonomous multi-agent systems acting upon the interests of one or more users involves the elicitation of preferences of these users. In decision theory, models...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
We consider the parallels between the preference elicitation problem in combinatorial auctions and the problem of learning an unknown function from learning theory. We show that l...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Utility or preference elicitation is a critical component in many recommender and decision support systems. However, most frameworks for elicitation assume a predefined set of fe...