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Preference Handling for Belief-Based Rational Decisions

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Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2013)

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We introduce an approach to preferences suitable for agents that base decisions on their beliefs. In our work, agents’ preferences are perceived as a consequence of their beliefs, but at the same time are used to feed the knowledge base with beliefs about preferences. As a result, agents can reason with preferences to hypothesize, explain decisions, and review preferences in face of new information. Finally, we integrate utility-based to reasoning-based criteria of decision making.

This is a reviewed and extended version of [10] focused on single agent decisions.

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  1. MDCC, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, Bl 910, Fortaleza, Brazil

    Samy Sá & João Alcântara

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Corunna, Campus de Elviña s/n, 15071, Corunna, Spain

    Pedro Cabalar

  2. Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, 1290 Frenger Mall, SH 123, MSC CS, P.O. Box 30001, 88003, Las Cruces, NM, USA

    Tran Cao Son

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Sá, S., Alcântara, J. (2013). Preference Handling for Belief-Based Rational Decisions. In: Cabalar, P., Son, T.C. (eds) Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning. LPNMR 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8148. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40564-8_51

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