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SIGECOM
2003
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
14 years 26 days ago
On polynomial-time preference elicitation with value queries
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Martin Zinkevich, Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm
COLT
2003
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Preference Elicitation and Query Learning
Abstract. In this paper we initiate an exploration of relationships between “preference elicitation”, a learning-style problem that arises in combinatorial auctions, and the pr...
Avrim Blum, Jeffrey C. Jackson, Tuomas Sandholm, M...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Preference query evaluation over expensive attributes
Most database systems allow query processing over attributes that are derived at query runtime (e.g., user-defined functions and remote data calls to web services), making them e...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
GECCO
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Use of Preferences for GA-based Multi-objective Optimisation
In this paper we present a method based on preference relations for transforming non–crisp (qualitative) relationships between objectives in multi–objective optimisation into ...
Dragan Cvetkovic, Ian C. Parmee
ICDE
2010
IEEE
271views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Preference Queries in Large Multi-Cost Transportation Networks
Research on spatial network databases has so far considered that there is a single cost value associated with each road segment of the network. In most real-world situations, howev...
Kyriakos Mouratidis, Yimin Lin, Man Lung Yiu