Book announcement: "Working with Preferences: Less Is More"

[Souhila Kaci]

 [Apologies for multiple postings]

 Working with Preferences: Less Is More.
 Souhila Kaci
 Springer, 2011
 ISBN:978-3-642-17279-3 
 (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-17279-3)


 Preferences are useful in many real-life problems, guiding human 
 decision making from early childhood up to complex professional and 
 organizational decisions. In artificial intelligence specifically, 
 preferences is a relatively new topic of relevance to nonmonotonic 
 reasoning, multiagent systems, constraint satisfaction, decision making, 
 social choice theory and decision-theoretic planning   The first part of 
 this book deals with preference representation, with specific chapters 
 dedicated to representation languages, nonmonotonic logics of 
 preferences, conditional preference networks, positive and negative 
 preferences, and the study of preferences in cognitive psychology. The 
 second part of the book deals with reasoning with preferences, and 
 includes chapters dedicated to preference-based argumentation, 
 preferences database queries, and rank-ordering outcomes and intervals. 
 The author concludes by examining forthcoming research perspectives.   
 This is inherently a multidisciplinary topic and this book will be of 
 interest to computer scientists, economists, operations researchers, 
 mathematicians, logicians, philosophers and psychologists.
 Content Level » Research

 Keywords: Artificial intelligence - Constraint satisfaction - Database 
 queries - Decision making - Decision-theoretic planning - Logic - 
 Multi-agent systems - Non-monotonic logics - Non-monotonic reasoning - 
 Preference representation - Preference-based argumentation - Preferences 
 - Reasoning - Social choice theory

 Related subjects: Artificial Intelligence - Logic & Philosophy of 
 Language - Operations Research & Decision Theory - Theoretical Computer 
 Science

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 Souhila Kaci
 Professor
 University of Montpellier 2
 LIRMM
 161 rue ADA
 F34392 Montpellier Cedex 5
 France
 http://www2.lirmm.fr/~kaci/
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