The majority of real-world probabilistic systems are used by more than one user, thus a utility model must be elicited separately for each newuser. Utility elicitation is long and...
Urszula Chajewska, Lise Getoor, Joseph Norman, Yuv...
Rational decision making requires full knowledge of the utility function of the person affected by the decisions. However, in many cases, the task of acquiring such knowledge is n...
Decentralized resource allocation is a key problem for large-scale autonomic (or self-managing) computing systems. Motivated by a data center scenario, we explore efficient techn...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Most frameworks for utility elicitation assume a predefined set of features over which user preferences are expressed. We consider utility elicitation in the presence of subjecti...
Any automated decision support software must tailor its actions or recommendations to the preferences of different users. Thus it requires some representation of user preferences ...