Preference Handling for Belief-Based Rational Decisions

We present 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.