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Rating elicitation is a success element for recommender systems to perform well at cold-starting, in which the systems need to recommend items to a newly arrived user with no prior knowledge about the user's preference. Existing elicitation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hieu Trung Nguyen , Duy Nguyen , Khoa Doan , Viet Anh Nguyen

Optimization of complex functions, such as the output of computer simulators, is a difficult task that has received much attention in the literature. A less studied problem is that of optimization under unknown constraints, i.e., when the…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-07-06 Robert B. Gramacy , Herbert K. H. Lee

Decision maker's preferences are often captured by some choice functions which are used to rank prospects. In this paper, we consider ambiguity in choice functions over a multi-attribute prospect space. Our main result is a robust…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-05-21 William B. Haskell , Wenjie Huang , Huifu Xu

In previous work cite{Ha98:Towards} we presented a case-based approach to eliciting and reasoning with preferences. A key issue in this approach is the definition of similarity between user preferences. We introduced the probabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Vu A. Ha , Peter Haddawy , John Miyamoto

Preference elicitation is an active learning approach to tackle the cold-start problem of recommender systems. Roughly speaking, new users are asked to rate some carefully selected items in order to compute appropriate recommendations for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Claudius Proissl , Amel Vatic , Helmut Waldschmidt

App store-inspired elicitation is the practice of exploring competitors' apps, to get inspiration for requirements. This activity is common among developers, but little insight is available on its practical use, advantages, and possible…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Alessio Ferrari , Paola Spoletini

Recommendation systems aim to identify items that are likely to be of interest to users. In many cases, users are interested in package recommendations as collections of items. For example, a dietitian may wish to derive a dietary plan as a…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Matteo Brucato , Azza Abouzied , Alexandra Meliou

Preference elicitation is a central problem in AI, and has received significant attention in single-agent settings. It is also a key problem in multiagent systems, but has received little attention here so far. In this setting, the agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vincent Conitzer , Tuomas Sandholm

Metric Elicitation (ME) is a framework for eliciting classification metrics that better align with implicit user preferences based on the task and context. The existing ME strategy so far is based on the assumption that users can most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-08 Safinah Ali , Sohini Upadhyay , Gaurush Hiranandani , Elena L. Glassman , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Current work in planning with preferences assume that the user's preference models are completely specified and aim to search for a single solution plan. In many real-world planning scenarios, however, the user probably cannot provide any…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Tuan Nguyen , Minh Do , Alfonso Gerevini , Ivan Serina , Biplav Srivastava , Subbarao Kambhampati

When faced with complex choices, users refine their own preference criteria as they explore the catalogue of options. In this paper we propose an approach to preference elicitation suited for this scenario. We extend Coactive Learning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Stefano Teso , Paolo Dragone , Andrea Passerini

What is a fair performance metric? We consider the choice of fairness metrics through the lens of metric elicitation -- a principled framework for selecting performance metrics that best reflect implicit preferences. The use of metric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-04 Gaurush Hiranandani , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Recovering and distinguishing between the strict-preference, indifference and/or indecisiveness parts of a decision maker's preferences is a challenging task but also important for testing theory and conducting welfare analysis. This paper…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-09-15 Georgios Gerasimou

Fuzzy optimization deals with the problem of determining 'optimal'solutions of an optimization problem when some of the elements that appear in the problem are not precise. In real situations it is usual to have information, in systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Victor Blanco , Justo Puerto

Emerging methods for participatory algorithm design have proposed collecting and aggregating individual stakeholder preferences to create algorithmic systems that account for those stakeholders' values. Using algorithmic student assignment…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Samantha Robertson , Niloufar Salehi

Complexity theory is a useful tool to study computational issues surrounding the elicitation of preferences, as well as the strategic manipulation of elections aggregating together preferences of multiple agents. We study here the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Toby Walsh

Bidders in combinatorial auctions face significant challenges when describing their preferences to an auctioneer. Classical work on preference elicitation focuses on query-based techniques inspired from proper learning--often via proxies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 David Huang , Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío , Edwin Lock , David Parkes

This paper presents an efficient preference elicitation framework for uncertain matroid optimization, where precise weight information is unavailable, but insights into possible weight values are accessible. The core innovation of our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Aditya Sai Ellendula , Arun K Pujari , Vikas Kumar , Venkateswara Rao Kagita

The paper deals with a lot sizing problem with ill-known demands modeled by fuzzy intervals whose membership functions are possibility distributions for the values of the uncertain demands. Optimization criteria, in the setting of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-22 Romain Guillaume , Przemyslaw Kobylanski , Pawel Zielinski

We present a unified logical framework for representing and reasoning about both quantitative and qualitative preferences in fuzzy answer set programming, called fuzzy answer set optimization programs. The proposed framework is vital to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Emad Saad