We study pure-strategy Nash equilibria in multi-player concurrent deterministic games, for a variety of preference relations. We provide a novel construction, called the suspect game, which transforms a multi-player concurrent game into a two-player turnbased game which turns Nash equilibria into winning strategies (for some objective that depends on the preference relations of the players in t...

We explain the implementation of replace rules with the .r-glc. operator and preference relations. Our modular approach combines various preference constraints to form different replace rules. In addition to describing the method, we present illustrative examples.

The present study investigates children's bias when interpreting novel noun-noun compounds (e.g. kig donka) that refer to combinations of novel objects (kig and donka). More specifically, it investigates children's understanding of modifier-head relations of the compounds and their preference for HAS or LOCATED relations (e.g. a donka that HAS a kig or a donka that is LOCATED near a kig) rather...

There are important theoretical and practical reasons to study belief structures. Similar to qualitative probability, qualitative belief can also be described in terms of a preference relation. One of the objectives in this study is to specify the precise conditions that a preference relation must satisfy such that it can be faithfully represented by a belief function. Two special classes of pr...

An approach to deal with user preference relations, instead of absolute ratings, in recommender systems is discussed. User’s preferences are then ratings expressed qualitatively by using linguistic terms. This is a suitable technique when preferences are imprecise and vague. On the other hand, to avoid that the overall item rating may hide the users’ preferences heterogeneity and mislead the sy...

We extend the main idea of a fuzzy analysis of consensus introduced by Spillman, Spillman and Bezdek [12] that is based on a concept of a distance from consensus to a case when individual testimonies are individual intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations, as opposed to fuzzy preference relations commonly employed. Intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations, that in addition to a membership deg...

The paper concerns the use of the lexicographic rule for combining preference relations with diierent priorities. We use it to interpret defaults with priorities. We present four kinds of results. We show that the lexicographic rule is the only way of combining preference relations which satisses conditions proposed by Arrow 1. We show in what circumstances the lexicographic rule propagates var...

This paper presents a method to construct an interval-valued fuzzy set from a fuzzy set and the representation of the lack of knowledge or ignorance that experts are subject to when they define the membership values of the elements to that fuzzy set. With this construction method, it is proved that membership intervals of equal length to the ignorance associated to the elements are obtained whe...

Group decision making with preference information on alternatives has become a very active research field over the last decade. Especially, the investigation on the group decision making problems based on different preference formats has attracted great interests from researchers recently and some approaches have been developed for dealing with these problems. However, the existing approaches c...

and identify the essential concepts Arrange all concepts according different weight values Identification root concepts Define preference concept ontology relations in the hierarchy Identify different word morphs, abbreviation, synonyms, etc. Collect preference concept terms Evaluate accuracy against Preference ontology generation Empirical study Design