GroupLens: applying collaborative filtering to Usenet news
Communications of the ACM
Interactive Critiquing forCatalog Navigation in E-Commerce
Artificial Intelligence Review
Learning Conjunctive Concepts in Structural Domains
Machine Learning
Machine Learning
Machine Learning
Constraint-based optimization and utility elicitation using the minimax decision criterion
Artificial Intelligence
Online feature elicitation in interactive optimization
ICML '09 Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning
Preference-based search using example-critiquing with suggestions
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Version spaces: a candidate elimination approach to rule learning
IJCAI'77 Proceedings of the 5th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Planning to see: A hierarchical approach to planning visual actions on a robot using POMDPs
Artificial Intelligence
Learning opponent's preferences for effective negotiation: an approach based on concept learning
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Utility or preference elicitation is a critical component in many recommender and decision support systems. However, most frameworks for elicitation assume a predefined set of features (e.g., as derived from catalog descriptions) over which user preferences are expressed. Just as user preferences vary considerably, so too can the features over which they are most comfortable expressing these preferences. In this work, we consider preference elicitation in the presence of subjective or user-defined features. We treat the problem of learning a user's feature definition as one of concept learning, but whose goal is to learn only enough about the concept definition to enable a good decision to be made. This is complicated by the fact that user preferences are unknown. We describe computational procedures for identifying optimal alternatives w.r.t minimax regret in the presence of both utility and concept uncertainty; and develop several heuristic query strategies that focus on reduction of relevant concept and utility uncertainty. Computational experiments verify the efficacy of these strategies.