By Souhila Kaci
Preferences are necessary in lots of real-life difficulties, guiding human determination making from early youth as much as complicated expert and organizational judgements. In synthetic intelligence in particular, personal tastes is a comparatively new subject of relevance to nonmonotonic reasoning, multiagent structures, constraint pride, selection making, social selection thought and decision-theoretic planning
The first a part of this booklet bargains with choice illustration, with particular chapters devoted to illustration languages, nonmonotonic logics of personal tastes, conditional choice networks, confident and damaging personal tastes, and the learn of personal tastes in cognitive psychology. the second one a part of the booklet offers with reasoning with personal tastes, and comprises chapters devoted to preference-based argumentation, personal tastes database queries, and rank-ordering results and durations. the writer concludes by way of interpreting approaching examine perspectives.
This is inherently a multidisciplinary subject and this publication may be of curiosity to laptop scientists, economists, operations researchers, mathematicians, logicians, philosophers and psychologists.
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3 Weighted Logics 23 Ω = {ω1 : fish − white − ice− cream, ω2 : fish − red − cake, ω3 : fish − red − ice− cream, ω4 : meat − white − cake, ω5 : meat − white − ice− cream, ω6 : meat − red − cake, ω7 : meat − red − ice− cream}. Indeed, this constraint excludes the unique best outcome fish − white − cake. All remaining outcomes are “worse” as they falsify at least one user’s preference. However, if we deeply analyze these “worse” outcomes, we can argue that some of them are better than others. More precisely, each of fish − white − ice− cream, fish − red − cake and meat − white − cake falsifies one preference formula and each of fish − red − ice− cream, meat − red − cake and meat − white − ice− cream falsifies two preference formulas while meat − red − ice− cream falsifies the three preference formulas.
The higher i is, the less preferred are formulas in Gi . Since formulas are disjunctively combined in guaranteed possibilistic logic, an outcome satisfies Gi if and only if it satisfies at least one formula in Gi . The satisfaction distribution associated with G is W OP(πG ) = S1 ∪ · · · ∪ Sn+1 , computed as follows: • Si is the set of outcomes which satisfy Gi but falsify all formulas in G1 ∪· · ·∪Gi−1 , • Sn+1 is the set of outcomes which falsify all formulas in G1 ∪ · · · ∪ Gn . In contrast to possibilistic logic, inconsistency is not relevant in guaranteed possibilistic logic since preference formulas are considered as wishes which are disjunctively combined.
8). The lexicographical ordering has the same principle as discrimin ordering. In contrast to the latter, it looks at the number of falsified formulas and not at the formulas themselves. 3 (Lexicographical ordering). [3, 29, 30, 52] Let Σ be a set of weighted formulas. Let F≥α (ω) = {ϕi | (ϕi , αi ) ∈ Σ , αi ≥ α, ω |= ϕi } and F=α (ω) = {ϕi | (ϕi , αi ) ∈ Σ , αi = α, ω |= ϕi }. The lexicographical ordering lex relation, denoted by lex Σ , is defined by ∀ω, ω ∈ Ω , ω Σ ω if and only if ∃β such that both of the following conditions hold: • ∀α > β , |F≥α (ω)| = |F≥α (ω )|, • |F=β (ω)| ≤ |F=β (ω )|, where |Γ | is the number of formulas in Γ .