Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Preferences: Tools and Applications
Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Preferences: Tools and Applications
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使用定性偏好进行表示和推理:工具和应用程序
DOI:
10.2200/s00689ed1v01y201512aim031
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2016
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Vasant G Honavar
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作者:
Ganesh Ram Santhanam;Samik Basu;Vasant G Honavar
Abstract This book provides a tutorial introduction to modern techniques for representing and reasoning about qualitative preferences with respect to a set of alternatives. The syntax and semantics of several languages for representing preference languages, including CP-nets, TCP-nets, CI-nets, and CP-theories, are reviewed. Some key problems in reasoning about preferences are introduced, including determining whether one alternative is preferred to another, or whether they are equivalent, with respect to a given set of preferences. These tasks can be reduced to model checking in temporal logic. Specifically, an induced preference graph that represents a given set of preferences can be efficiently encoded using a Kripke Structure for Computational Tree Logic (CTL). One can translate preference queries with respect to a set of preferences into an equivalent set of formulae in CTL, such that the CTL formula is satisfied whenever the preference query holds. This allows us to use a model checker to reason abo...