Title
Dealing with incomplete preferences in soft constraint problems
Abstract
We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, situations with several agents providing the data, or with possible privacy issues. In this context, we study how to find an optimal solution without having to wait for all the preferences. In particular, we define an algorithm to find a solution which is necessarily optimal, that is, optimal no matter what the missing data will be, with the aim to ask the user to reveal as few preferences as possible. Experimental results show that in many cases a necessarily optimal solution can be found without eliciting too many preferences.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
CP
possible privacy issue,soft constraint problem,optimal solution,incomplete preference,missing data
Field
DocType
Volume
Mathematical optimization,Ask price,Computer science,Missing data
Conference
4741
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
15
0.76
References 
Authors
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mirco Gelain1725.37
Maria Silvia Pini235330.28
Francesca Rossi32067176.42
K. Brent Venable416213.58