In 2020, we had planned the annual meeting of the working group on preference handling in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). However, due to the pandemic, this conference was transformed into an online format and Santiago de Compostela got a second chance to organize ECAI in 2024 … Read more
The preparation of the 14th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling M-PREF 2023 encountered several challenges, but ended with an excellent event. M-PREF 2023 has been held on August 21, 2023 in Macao, S.A.R. in conjunction with IJCAI 2023. M-PREF 2023 has been organized by Haris Aziz, Ulrich Junker, Xinhang Lu, Nicholas Mattei, and Andrea Passerini … Read more
When are decisions made? The answer to this question may be obvious. Usually, decisions are made just in time. For example, we choose a restaurant just before going out for lunch. Or we choose a product just when we want to buy it. Making a decision earlier does not make much sense as we don’t know all the available alternatives in advance.
What is the opposite of preferences? The opposite of a particular preference between two alternatives may be the inverse preference. For example, if we prefer speaking to writing, we may say that the opposite of this preference is preferring writing to speaking. But what is the opposite of the concept of preference? We may say that this is the absence of preference, that means indifference.
It took a bit longer this year, but finally the events on preference handling got announced begin of March.
The 13th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling M-PREF 2022 will be held in Vienna, Austria on July 23, 24, or 25, 2022 in conjunction with IJCAI-ECAI 2022. The workshop will address all computational aspects … Read more
