Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Preferences: Tools and Applications

This book provides a tutorial introduction to modern techniques for representing and reasoning about qualitative preferences with respect to a set of alternatives. The syntax and semantics of several languages for representing preference languages, including CP-nets, TCP-nets, CI-nets, and CP-theories, are reviewed. Some key problems in reasoning about preferences are also introduced. ISBN 9781627058391, 154 pages.