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SIGECOM
2003
ACM
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On polynomial-time preference elicitation with value queries
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...
Martin Zinkevich, Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
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Automated mechanism design for a self-interested designer
Often, an outcome must be chosen on the basis of the preferences reported by a group of agents. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely to m...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ACMICEC
2003
ACM
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Automated mechanism design: complexity results stemming from the single-agent setting
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism ...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
JELIA
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Hierarchical Decision Making by Autonomous Agents
Abstract. Often, decision making involves autonomous agents that are structured in a complex hierarchy, representing e.g. authority. Typically the agents share the same body of kno...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
CP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Controllability of Soft Temporal Constraint Problems
In real-life temporal scenarios, uncertainty and preferences are often essential, coexisting aspects. We present a formalism where temporal constraints with both preferences and un...
Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Neil Yorke...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
112views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
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Self-interested automated mechanism design and implications for optimal combinatorial auctions
Often, an outcome must be chosen on the basis of the preferences reported by a group of agents. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely to m...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ICLP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Preference Reasoning
Abstract. Constraints and preferences are ubiquitous in real-life. Moreover, preferences can be of many kinds: qualitative, quantitative, conditional, positive or negative, to name...
Francesca Rossi
SIGDOC
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
What users say they want in documentation
While earlier work provided a partial view of users’ preferences about manuals, for most users in most work contexts the important question remains open: What do users want in d...
David G. Novick, Karen Ward
WECWIS
2006
IEEE
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Agile Decision Agent for Service-Oriented E-Commerce Systems
In a service-oriented e-commerce environment, it is a crucial task to help consumers choose desired products efficiently from a huge amount of dynamically configured product can...
Jiyong Zhang, Pearl Pu, Boi Faltings
MDM
2007
Springer
123views Communications» more  MDM 2007»
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On Relaxing Contextual Preference Queries
Personalization systems exploit preferences for providing users with only relevant data from the huge volume of information that is currently available. We consider preferences th...
Kostas Stefanidis, Evaggelia Pitoura, Panos Vassil...