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...
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...
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...
In this paper we present a method based on preference relations for transforming non–crisp (qualitative) relationships between objectives in multi–objective optimisation into ...
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...