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Introducing Variable Importance Tradeoffs into CP-Nets

Artificial Intelligence 2013-01-07 v1

Abstract

The ability to make decisions and to assess potential courses of action is a corner-stone of many AI applications, and usually this requires explicit information about the decision-maker s preferences. IN many applications, preference elicitation IS a serious bottleneck.The USER either does NOT have the time, the knowledge, OR the expert support required TO specify complex multi - attribute utility functions. IN such cases, a method that IS based ON intuitive, yet expressive, preference statements IS required. IN this paper we suggest the USE OF TCP - nets, an enhancement OF CP - nets, AS a tool FOR representing, AND reasoning about qualitative preference statements.We present AND motivate this framework, define its semantics, AND show how it can be used TO perform constrained optimization.

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@article{arxiv.1301.0558,
  title  = {Introducing Variable Importance Tradeoffs into CP-Nets},
  author = {Ronen I. Brafman and Carmel Domshlak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0558},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2002)

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