This paper investigates the problem of preference modeling under the belief function framework. In this work, we introduce a new model that is able to generate quantitative information from qualitative assessments. Therefore, we suggest to represent the decision maker preferences in different levels where the indifference, strict preference, weak preference and incompleteness relations are cons...

Collaborative filtering has been successfully applied for predicting a person’s preference on an item, by aggregating community preference on the item. Typically, collaborative filtering systems are based on based on quantitative preference modeling, which requires users to express their preferences in absolute numerical ratings. However, quantitative user ratings are known to be biased and inc...

Form for the 2012 SORCE Science Meeting – Annapolis, MD, Sept. 18-19 Models of Spectral Irradiance Variability Origins in the solar atmosphere and impacts on Earth’s atmosphere Session Themes (identify your preference if you have a preference): _____ 1. Modeling of the solar atmosphere with emphasis on spectral irradiance _____ 2. Modeling of the solar influence on Earth climate _____ 3. Observ...

Advanced personalization techniques are required to cope with novel challenges posed by attribute-rich MPEG-7 based digital libraries. At the heart of our deeply personalized news dissemination system P-News is one extensible preference model that serves all purposes, preventing impedance mismatches between the various stages: User modeling by structured preference patterns, automatic query exp...

In value tree analysis, additive value functions are used to model alternatives' overall values. Diculties in complete evaluation of alternatives' attribute-specic values (scores) and attributes' relative importance have spurred research on the modeling of incomplete preference information. This thesis shows how incomplete ordinal information, captured as ordinal information where a set of rank...

In the paper a survey on non conventional preference modeling is presented. Some philo-sophical discussion on the logic and foundations of human preferences is presented as the firstattempt to provide an axiomatization of the subject. The use of preference models in decisionaid however introduces such parameters to put serious questions to the possibility to build acomplete norm...