Voting theory provides useful insights for multiagent preference aggregation. However, the standard setting assumes totally ordered preferences, as well as a ballot language that coincides with the preference language. In typical AI scenarios, these assumptions do not hold: certain alternatives may be incomparable for some agents, and others may have their preferences encoded in a format that i...

This study explores how features of brand personalities can be modelled with the prosodic parameters pitch level, pitch range, articulation rate and loudness. Experiments with parametrical diphone synthesis showed that listeners rated the prosodically changed versions better than a baseline version for the dimensions "sincerity", "competence", "sophistication", "excitement" and "ruggedness". Th...