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AAAI
2006
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Evaluating Preference-based Search Tools: A Tale of Two Approaches
People frequently use the world-wide web to find their most preferred item among a large range of options. We call this task preference-based search. The most common tool for pref...
Paolo Viappiani, Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu
AAAI
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Low-cost Addition of Preferences to DTPs and TCSPs
We present an efficient approach to adding soft constraints, in the form of preferences, to Disjunctive Temporal Problems (DTPs) and their subclass Temporal Constraint Satisfactio...
Bart Peintner, Martha E. Pollack
AAAI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Preference Elicitation and Generalized Additive Utility
Any automated decision support software must tailor its actions or recommendations to the preferences of different users. Thus it requires some representation of user preferences ...
Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
NIPS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
A rational model of preference learning and choice prediction by children
Young children demonstrate the ability to make inferences about the preferences of other agents based on their choices. However, there exists no overarching account of what childr...
Christopher G. Lucas, Thomas L. Griffiths, Fei Xu,...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 5 months ago
A Heuristic Search Approach to Planning with Temporally Extended Preferences
In this paper we propose a suite of techniques for planning with temporally extended preferences (TEPs). To this end, we propose a method for compiling TEP planning problems into ...
Jorge A. Baier, Fahiem Bacchus, Sheila A. McIlrait...
EUSFLAT
2007
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Modeling the Context in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
In Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, the preferences of the decision maker regarding each criterion are classically modelled by a utility function depending on one single varia...
Christophe Labreuche
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Agents Preferences in Decentralized Task Allocation
The ability to express preferences for specific tasks in multi-agent auctions is an important element for potential users who are considering to use such auctioning systems. This p...
Mark Hoogendoorn, Maria L. Gini
CP
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Elicitation Strategies for Fuzzy Constraint Problems with Missing Preferences: Algorithms and Experimental Studies
Fuzzy constraints are a popular approach to handle preferences and over-constrained problems in scenarios where one needs to be cautious, such as in medical or space applications. ...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Content-oriented composite service negotiation with complex preferences
In e-commerce, for some cases the service requested by the consumer cannot be fulfilled by the producer. In such cases, service consumers and producers need to negotiate their ser...
Reyhan Aydogan
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Complexity of terminating preference elicitation
Complexity theory is a useful tool to study computational issues surrounding the elicitation of preferences, as well as the strategic manipulation of elections aggregating togethe...
Toby Walsh