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Working with Preferences: Less Is More

Part of the Cognitive Technologies Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17280-9

ISBN: 978-3-642-17279-3

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg - Springer Journals

May 18, 2011

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Introduction

Kaci, Souhila

Pages: 1 –8

[According to the dictionary, a preference is “(i) the act of preferring, (ii) the desire to have, do or choose one thing rather another, because you like it better, or because it is more convenient for you, (iii) a preferred choice: His preference is vanilla, not chocolate, (iv) a practical...
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Preferences Modeling

Kaci, Souhila

Pages: 11 –17

[Dealing with preferences means that one needs to make a choice from a collection of possible choices. The generic term object is used as a formal term for choice. An object may be a trip, a candidate, a course, a time interval, etc.]
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Preference Representation Languages

Kaci, Souhila

Pages: 19 –85

[Preference representation is the task of capturing and manipulating user preferences described by a preference relation. The support of a preference representation is called a language, which we refer to as preference representation language. ]
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Making Hidden Priorities Explicit

Kaci, Souhila

Pages: 87 –105

[Users’ preferences show up in different formats: quantitative vs. qualitative, conditional vs. unconditional, prioritized vs. flat, etc. In fact, depending on the reason, it could be more natural to express preferences in one a format or another. Thus, it became a challenge for researchers to...
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What Psychology Has to Say About Preferences

Kaci, Souhila

Pages: 107 –117

[In the previous chapters we addressed various problems related to the representation of and reasoning with preferences. These problems are mainly grounded in mathematical and philosophical approaches representing how the users are expected to behave [25, 26]. Therefore, a preference relation is...
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Preferences in Argumentation Theory

Kaci, Souhila

Pages: 121 –150

[Argumentation theory is a reasoning process based on constructing arguments, determining conflicts between arguments and determining acceptable arguments. Dung’s argumentation framework is an abstract framework based on a set of arguments and a binary defeat relation defined over the set [12]....
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Preferences in Database Queries

Kaci, Souhila

Pages: 151 –172

[Dealing with preferences is an important issue in database querying. Suppose that a user is looking for a hotel in Paris. Due to the large number of hotels in this city, providing more knowledge about the user’s preferences in the query will help us eliminate irrelevant hotels and focus only on...
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Preferences Aggregation

Kaci, Souhila

Pages: 173 –193

[In the previous chapters we focused on problems related to the representation of and reasoning with preferences. In this chapter we highlight the closeness of preference representation and other artificial intelligence fields. In particular, we shed light on conditional logics and relate them to...
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Conclusion

Kaci, Souhila

Pages: 195 –199

[Preferences play an important role in our daily decisions. However, managing preferences is a hard task. We always hesitate when we are faced with multiple choices. Fortunately, work over the past decade in artificial intelligence concerning preferences has been extremely successful. In...

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