A Short Introduction to Preferences: Between AI and Social Choice

A Short Introduction to Preferences: Between AI and Social Choice (Synthesis Lectures forward Artificial Inetlligence and Machine Learning) By Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh
2011 | 102 Pages | ISBN: 1608455866 | PDF | 1 MB

Computational neighborly choice is an expanding field that merges classical topics like housewifery and voting theory with more late topics like artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, and computational involved character. This book provides a concise elementary to the main research lines in this opportunity, covering aspects such as preference modelling, doubt reasoning, social choice, stable matching, and computational aspects of election aggregation and manipulation. The book is centered surrounding the notion of preference reasoning, the one and the other in the single-agent and the multi-operator setting. It presents the main approaches to modeling and argumentation with preferences, with particular attention to sum of ~ units popular and powerful formalisms, soft constraints and CP-nets. The authors contemplate preference elicitation and various forms of dubiousness in soft constraints. They review the ut~ relevant results in voting, with peculiar attention to computational social choice. Finally, the volume considers preferences in matching problems.
The main division is intended for students and researchers who may be interested in an introduction to preference reasoning and multi-agent preference aggregating, and who want to know the basic notions and results in computational civil choice.