TY - GEN
T1 - An argumentation framework for qualitative multi-criteria preferences
AU - Visser, Wietske
AU - Hindriks, Koen V.
AU - Jonker, Catholijn M.
PY - 2012/4/16
Y1 - 2012/4/16
N2 - Preferences between different alternatives (products, decisions, agreements etc.) are often based on multiple criteria. Qualitative Preference Systems (QPS) is a formal framework for the representation of qualitative multi-criteria preferences in which a criterion's preference is defined based on the values of attributes or by combining multiple subcriteria in a cardinality-based or lexicographic way. In this paper we present a language and reasoning mechanism to represent and reason about such qualitative multi-criteria preferences. We take an argumentation-based approach and show that the presented argumentation framework correctly models a QPS. Then we extend this argumentation framework in such a way that it can derive missing information from background knowledge, which makes it more flexible in case of incomplete specifications.
AB - Preferences between different alternatives (products, decisions, agreements etc.) are often based on multiple criteria. Qualitative Preference Systems (QPS) is a formal framework for the representation of qualitative multi-criteria preferences in which a criterion's preference is defined based on the values of attributes or by combining multiple subcriteria in a cardinality-based or lexicographic way. In this paper we present a language and reasoning mechanism to represent and reason about such qualitative multi-criteria preferences. We take an argumentation-based approach and show that the presented argumentation framework correctly models a QPS. Then we extend this argumentation framework in such a way that it can derive missing information from background knowledge, which makes it more flexible in case of incomplete specifications.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-29184-5_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-29184-5_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84859604713
SN - 9783642291838
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 85
EP - 98
BT - Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation - First International Workshop, TAFA 2011, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation, TAFA 2011
Y2 - 16 July 2011 through 17 July 2011
ER -