Preference elicitation for group decisions

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    Abstract

    Groups engaged in a mutual activity often need assistance in order to reach a joint decision. However, the group members' personal preferences are often unknown and need to be collected. Querying for preferences can annoy the users. We suggest employing a voting mechanism that finds a winning item under incomplete settings. We present a practical method for eliciting the preferences, so that with a minimal amount of queries a winning item that certainly suits the group can be computed. The heuristic incorporates probabilistic assumptions on the users' preferences and was evaluated on a real world datasets as well as on simulated data, showing a saving in queries to users.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationGroup Decision and Negotiation
    Subtitle of host publicationA Process-Oriented View - Joint INFORMS-GDN and EWG-DSS International Conference, GDN 2014, Proceedings
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages193-200
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Print)9783319071787
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1 Jan 2014
    Event14th conference of the INFORMS Section on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2014 - Toulouse, France
    Duration: 10 Jun 201413 Jun 2014

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
    Volume180 LNBIP
    ISSN (Print)1865-1348

    Conference

    Conference14th conference of the INFORMS Section on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2014
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityToulouse
    Period10/06/1413/06/14

    Keywords

    • Decision support systems
    • Preference elicitation
    • Social choice

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Management Information Systems
    • Control and Systems Engineering
    • Business and International Management
    • Information Systems
    • Modeling and Simulation
    • Information Systems and Management

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