Two logical operators for representing and handling preferences

Gautier Meyer (1, 2) , Vincent Louis (1) , Jean-Paul Sansonnet (2) , Yannick Larvor (1)

1 FT R&D - France Télécom Recherche & Développement
2 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur

Models of cognitive rational agents too seldom specify a decision step. This article aims at bridging this gap by proposing a qualitative formalization of the preference concept. We define two logical operators: the first one to specify preferences naturally; the second one to compare the agent's reactions with each other.

Domains: Logic in Computer Science [cs.LO]

Gautier Meyer, Vincent Louis, Jean-Paul Sansonnet, Yannick Larvor. Two logical operators for representing and handling preferences. IJCAI-05 Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling, Jul 2005, Edinburg, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-00321525⟩