[Apologies for multiple postings]
Working with Preferences: Less Is More.
Souhila Kaci
Springer, 2011
ISBN:978-3-642-17279-3
(http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-17279-3)
Preferences are useful in many real-life problems, guiding human
decision making from early childhood up to complex professional and
organizational decisions. In artificial intelligence specifically,
preferences is a relatively new topic of relevance to nonmonotonic
reasoning, multiagent systems, constraint satisfaction, decision making,
social choice theory and decision-theoretic planning The first part of
this book deals with preference representation, with specific chapters
dedicated to representation languages, nonmonotonic logics of
preferences, conditional preference networks, positive and negative
preferences, and the study of preferences in cognitive psychology. The
second part of the book deals with reasoning with preferences, and
includes chapters dedicated to preference-based argumentation,
preferences database queries, and rank-ordering outcomes and intervals.
The author concludes by examining forthcoming research perspectives.
This is inherently a multidisciplinary topic and this book will be of
interest to computer scientists, economists, operations researchers,
mathematicians, logicians, philosophers and psychologists.
Content Level ยป Research
Keywords: Artificial intelligence - Constraint satisfaction - Database
queries - Decision making - Decision-theoretic planning - Logic -
Multi-agent systems - Non-monotonic logics - Non-monotonic reasoning -
Preference representation - Preference-based argumentation - Preferences
- Reasoning - Social choice theory
Related subjects: Artificial Intelligence - Logic & Philosophy of
Language - Operations Research & Decision Theory - Theoretical Computer
Science
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Souhila Kaci
Professor
University of Montpellier 2
LIRMM
161 rue ADA
F34392 Montpellier Cedex 5
France
http://www2.lirmm.fr/~kaci/
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