An argumentation framework for qualitative multi-criteria preferences

Authors:
Wietske Visser;Koen V. Hindriks;Catholijn M. Jonker
Affiliations:
Man Machine Interaction Group, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;Man Machine Interaction Group, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;Man Machine Interaction Group, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Venue:
TAFA'11 Proceedings of the First international conference on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Preferences between different alternatives (products, decisions, agreements etc.) are often based on multiple criteria. Qualitative Preference Systems (QPS) is a formal framework for the representation of qualitative multi-criteria preferences in which a criterion's preference is defined based on the values of attributes or by combining multiple subcriteria in a cardinality-based or lexicographic way. In this paper we present a language and reasoning mechanism to represent and reason about such qualitative multi-criteria preferences. We take an argumentation-based approach and show that the presented argumentation framework correctly models a QPS. Then we extend this argumentation framework in such a way that it can derive missing information from background knowledge, which makes it more flexible in case of incomplete specifications.