Robust preference assessment and online mechanism design

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The assessment of user preferences is critical to the development of decision support and interactive optimization tools The ability to customize decisions to the needs or desires of specific users or organizations is of great interest in a wide range of domains, including medical decision making, financial planning, procurement and supply chain management, product recommendation, personalized Web search, advertizing, user interface configuration, and many others. Making good or optimal decisions requires that a system know enough about a user's preferences (or utility function) to address the task at hand, and have the ability to trade off the costs of obtaining such preference information with the value of that information (i.e., its ability to improve decision quality).