CP-nets: A Tool for Representing and Reasoning withConditional Ceteris Paribus Preference Statements
Abstract
Information about user preferences plays a key role in automated decision making. In many domains it is desirable to assess such preferences in a qualitative rather than quantitative way. In this paper, we propose a qualitative graphical representation of preferences that reflects conditional dependence and independence of preference statements under a ceteris paribus (all else being equal) interpretation. Such a representation is often compact and arguably quite natural in many circumstances. We provide a formal semantics for this model, and describe how the structure of the network can be exploited in several inference tasks, such as determining whether one outcome dominates (is preferred to) another, ordering a set outcomes according to the preference relation, and constructing the best outcome subject to available evidence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1107.0023,
title = {CP-nets: A Tool for Representing and Reasoning withConditional Ceteris Paribus Preference Statements},
author = {C. Boutilier and R. I. Brafman and C. Domshlak and H. H. Hoos and D. Poole},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.0023},
year = {2011}
}