Preference

Preference is usually conceptualized as a set of attitudes or evaluations made by an agent towards a specific object. Although typically studied by the social sciences,object, and it has been proposed that AI has a more robust set of methods to deal with them. These can be divided in several steps:

Preference is usually conceptualized as a set of attitudes or evaluations made by a subject oran agent towards a specific object or group of objects. These attitudes can vary in their intensity and valence, directly influencing the decision-making process, both implicitly and explicitly.

object. Although typically studied by the social sciences, it has been proposed that AI has a more robust set of methods to deal with them. These can be divided in several steps:

1. Preferences acquisition: Extraction of preferences from a user, through an interactive learning system, e.g. a question-answer process.
2. Preferences modeling: After extraction, the goal is to create a mathematical model expressing the preferences, taking into account its properties, likeproperties (for instance, if the transitionpreferences are transitive between pairs of relations.choices).
3. Preferences representation: With a robust model of preferences, it becomes necessary to develop a symbolic system to represent them - a preference representation language.
4. Preferences reasoning: Finally, having represented a user’s or agent’s preferences, it is possible to mine the data looking for new insights and knowledge. This could be used, for instance, to aggregate users based on preferences or as biases in decision processes and game theory scenarios.

1. Preference acquisition:Preferences acquisition: Extraction of preferences from a user, through an interactive learning system, e.g. a question-answer process.
2. Preferences modeling:modeling: After extraction, the goal is to create a mathematical model expressing the preferences, taking into account its properties, like the transition of relations.
3. Preference representation:Preferences representation: With a robust model of preferences, it becomes necessary to develop a symbolic system to represent them - a preference representation language.
4. Preferences reasoning:reasoning: Finally, having represented a user’s or agent’s preferences, it is possible to mine the data looking for new insights and knowledge. This could be used, for instance, to aggregate users based on preferences or as biases in decision processes and game theory scenarios.

• Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up? by Yvain
• Notion of Preference in Ambient Control by Vladimir Nesov
• To What Degree Do We Have Goals? by Yvain
• A brief tutorial on preferences in AI] by Luke Muehlhauser