Preferences in AI and CP: Symbolic Approaches
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Ulrich Junker, Chair
Technical Report WS-02-13 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Preface / vi
Ulrich Junker
Preferences: Some Problems and Prospects / vii
Jon Doyle
Logic Programming with Ordered Disjunction / 1
Gerhard Brewka
Constructed Preferences and Value-Focused Thinking: Implications for AI Research on Preference Elicitation / 9
Giuseppe Carenini and David Poole
Towards a Classification of Preference Handling Approaches in Nonmonotonic Reasoning / 16
James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub, Hans Tompits, and Kewen Wang
Multi-Agent Meeting Scheduling with Preferences: Efficiency, Privacy Loss, and Solution Quality / 25
Maria Sole Franzin, E. C. Freuder, F. Rossi, and R. Wallace
Utility Functions for Ceteris Paribus Preferences / 33
Michael McGeachie and Jon Doyle
A Calculus of Partially Ordered Preferences for Compositional Modeling and Configuration / 39
Jeroen Keppens and Qiang Shen
Optimizing Temporal Preferences / 47
Lina Khatib, Paul Morris, and Robert Morris
Resolving Conflicts in Agent Guidance / 52
Karen L. Myers and David N. Morley
Constraints and Preferences: The Interplay of Preferences and Algorithms / 60
T. Schiex and M. Cooper
Eliciting Utilities by Refining Theories of Monotonicity and Risk / 67
Angelo Restificar, Peter Haddawy, Vu Ha, and John Miyamoto
Two Solvers for Tractable Temporal Constraints with Preferences / 73
F. Rossi, F. K. B. Venable, L. Khatib, P. Morris, and R. Morris
POET: The Online Preference Elicitation Tool / 80
James Royalty, Robert Holland, Judy Goldsmith, and Alex Dekhtyar
Constructing and Clearing Combinatorial Exchanges Using Preference Elicitation / 87
Trey Smith, Tuomas Sandholm, and Reid Simmons
Preferences as Conclusions / 94
Richmond H. Thomason
Using Soft CSPs for Approximating Pareto-Optimal Solution Sets / 99
Marc Torrens and Boi Faltings
Meeting Scheduling with Preferences with Limited Comparability: Effects of Agent Knowledge / 107
Richard J. Wallace and Eugene C. Freuder
Program Committee / 107
Ulrich Junker
Organizing Committee and Contents / 107
Ulrich Junker
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