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FLAIRS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Conditional and Composite Constraints with Preferences
Preferences in constraint problems are common but significant in many real world applications. In this paper, we extend our conditional and composite CSP (CCCSP) framework, managi...
Malek Mouhoub, Amrudee Sukpan
AAAI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Minimal Contraction of Preference Relations
Changing preferences is very common in real life. The expressive power of the operations of preference change introduced so far in the literature is limited to adding new informat...
Denis Mindolin, Jan Chomicki
AAAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Representative Explanations for Over-Constrained Problems
In many interactive decision making scenarios there is often no solution that satisfies all of the user’s preferences. The decision process can be helped by providing explanati...
Barry O'Sullivan, Alexandre Papadopoulos, Boi Falt...
ENTER
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Field Trial to Elicit Individual Preferences in the Context of a Mobile Dynamic Tour Guide
Knowing tourists' individual preferences provides the possibility to offer personalised tours. The challenge is to capture these preferences using a mobile device. During a f...
Ronny Kramer, Marko Modsching, Klaus ten Hagen, Ul...
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Preference Representation with 3-Points Intervals
In this article we are interested in the representation of qualitative preferences with the help of 3-points intervals (a vector of three increasingly ordered points). Preferences ...
Meltem Öztürk, Alexis Tsoukiàs
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Negotiating efficient outcomes over multiple issues
It is difficult to reach optimal outcomes in bilateral negotiations with multiple issues when the agents' preferences and priorities of the issues are not common knowledge. S...
Sabyasachi Saha, Sandip Sen
VLDB
1994
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo
ECAI
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Scheduling Meetings Using Distributed Valued Constraint Satisfaction Algorithm
Abstract. Scheduling meetings is generally difficult in that it attempts to satisfy the preferences of all participants. However, all participants can agree to a schedule in which...
Takuo Tsuruta, Toramatsu Shintani
ECSQARU
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Social Choice, Merging, and Elections
Abstract. Intelligent agents have to be able to merge inputs received from different sources in a coherent and rational way. Recently, several proposals have been made for the merg...
Thomas Andreas Meyer, Aditya Ghose, Samir Chopra
IPMU
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Extracting and Modelling Preferences from Dialogue
Abstract. Dialogue moves influence and are influenced by the agents’ preferences. We propose a method for modelling this interaction. We motivate and describe a recursive metho...
Nicholas Asher, Elise Bonzon, Alex Lascarides