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Essays on individual decision making under uncertainty

Elise Le Nestour

This research project is an experimental study of decision-making in very difficult contexts resembling those encountered in financial markets. The starting point was the empirical observation that financial assets are objects of a very complex kind. Speci ...

EPFL2009

Constraint-Level Advice for Shaving

Radoslaw Szymanek

This work concentrates on improving the robustness of constraint solvers by increasing the propagation strength of constraint models in a declarative and automatic manner. Our objective is to efficiently identify and remove shavable values during search. A ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2008

Toward a procedural and substantial Approach of Decision Making. Position paper NCCR North-South.

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni

Toward a procedural and substantial Approach of Decision Making. Position paper NCCR North-South. ...

2008

Preference-based search with suggestions

Paolo Viappiani

The internet provides an unprecedented variety of opportunities to people. Whether looking for a place to go on vacation, an apartment to rent, or a PC to buy, the potential customer is faced with countless possibilities. Most people have difficulty findin ...

EPFL2007

Representative explanations for over-constrained problems

Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu Faltings

In many interactive decision making scenarios there is often no solution that satisfies all of the user's preferences. The decision process can be helped by providing explanations. Relaxations show sets of consistent preferences and, thus, indicate which p ...

American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496, United States2007

Explicit Passive Analysis in Electronic Catalogs

Martin Rajman, David Portabella Clotet

We consider example-critiquing systems that help people search for their most preferred item in a large catalog. We compare 6 existing approaches in terms of user or system-centric, implicit or explicit use of preferences, assumptions used and their behavi ...

2006

Agile decision agent for service-oriented e-commerce systems

Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu Faltings

In a service-oriented e-commerce environment, it is a crucial task to help consumers choose desired products efficiently from a huge amount of dynamically configured product candidates. Decision agents can be designed to provide interactive decision aids f ...

IEEE Comput. Soc2006

Analysis of driver's response to real-time information in Switzerland

Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Clément Louis Ghislain Thémans

We present behavioral models designed to capture the response of drivers to real-time traffic information. In 2003, we have conducted a survey in Switzerland in order to collect both Revealed Preferences (RP) and Stated Preferences (SP) about choice decisi ...

2006

Preference-based Search using Example-Critiquing with Suggestions

Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu Faltings, Paolo Viappiani

We consider interactive tools that help users search for their most preferred item in a large collection of options. In particular, we examine example-critiquing, a technique for enabling users to incrementally construct preference models by critiquing exa ...

2006

Stimulating preference expression using suggestions

Pearl Pu Faltings, Paolo Viappiani

Users often have to search for a most preferred item but do not know how to state their preferences in the language allowed by the system. Example-Critiquing has been proposed as a mixed-initiative technique for allowing them to construct their preference ...

American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496, United States2005