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Preference Learning

Author : Johannes Fürnkranz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642141250
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Preference Learning written by Johannes Fürnkranz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of preferences is a new branch of machine learning and data mining, and it has attracted considerable attention in artificial intelligence research in previous years. It involves learning from observations that reveal information about the preferences of an individual or a class of individuals. Representing and processing knowledge in terms of preferences is appealing as it allows one to specify desires in a declarative way, to combine qualitative and quantitative modes of reasoning, and to deal with inconsistencies and exceptions in a flexible manner. And, generalizing beyond training data, models thus learned may be used for preference prediction. This is the first book dedicated to this topic, and the treatment is comprehensive. The editors first offer a thorough introduction, including a systematic categorization according to learning task and learning technique, along with a unified notation. The first half of the book is organized into parts on label ranking, instance ranking, and object ranking; while the second half is organized into parts on applications of preference learning in multiattribute domains, information retrieval, and recommender systems. The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in artificial intelligence, in particular machine learning and data mining, and in fields such as multicriteria decision-making and operations research.

The Construction of Preference

Author : Sarah Lichtenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139457780
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Preference written by Sarah Lichtenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the main themes that has emerged from behavioral decision research during the past three decades is the view that people's preferences are often constructed in the process of elicitation. This idea is derived from studies demonstrating that normatively equivalent methods of elicitation (e.g., choice and pricing) give rise to systematically different responses. These preference reversals violate the principle of procedure invariance that is fundamental to all theories of rational choice. If different elicitation procedures produce different orderings of options, how can preferences be defined and in what sense do they exist? This book shows not only the historical roots of preference construction but also the blossoming of the concept within psychology, law, marketing, philosophy, environmental policy, and economics. Decision making is now understood to be a highly contingent form of information processing, sensitive to task complexity, time pressure, response mode, framing, reference points, and other contextual factors.

Sexual Preference, Its Development in Men and Women

Author : Alan Paul Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Preference, Its Development in Men and Women written by Alan Paul Bell and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An official publication of the Alfred C. Kinsey Institute for Sex Research.

Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience

Author : Jerry J. Buccafusco
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420041819
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience by : Jerry J. Buccafusco

Download or read book Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience written by Jerry J. Buccafusco and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the most well-studied behavioral analyses of animal subjects to promote a better understanding of the effects of disease and the effects of new therapeutic treatments on human cognition, Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience provides a reference manual for molecular and cellular research scientists in both academia and the pharmaceutic

The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order

Author : Steven Brams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540791280
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order written by Steven Brams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Fishburn has had a splendidly productive career that led to path-breaking c- tributions in a remarkable variety of areas of research. His contributions have been published in a vast literature, ranging through journals of social choice and welfare, decision theory, operations research, economic theory, political science, mathema- cal psychology, and discrete mathematics. This work was done both on an individual basis and with a very long list of coauthors. The contributions that Fishburn made can roughly be divided into three major topical areas, and contributions to each of these areas are identi?ed by sections of this monograph. Section 1 deals with topics that are included in the general areas of utility, preference, individual choice, subjective probability, and measurement t- ory. Section 2 covers social choice theory, voting models, and social welfare. S- tion 3 deals with more purely mathematical topics that are related to combinatorics, graph theory, and ordered sets. The common theme of Fishburn’s contributions to all of these areas is his ability to bring rigorous mathematical analysis to bear on a wide range of dif?cult problems.

Revealed Preference Theory

Author : Christopher P. Chambers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107087805
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Revealed Preference Theory written by Christopher P. Chambers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of revealed preference has a long, distinguished tradition in economics but lacked a systematic presentation of the theory until now. This book deals with basic questions in economic theory and studies situations in which empirical observations are consistent or inconsistent with some of the best known economic theories.

Preference Change

Author : Till Grüne-Yanoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048125936
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Preference Change written by Till Grüne-Yanoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing preferencesis a phenomenonoften invoked but rarely properlyaccounted for. Throughout the history of the social sciences, researchers have come against the possibility that their subjects’ preferenceswere affected by the phenomenato be explainedor by otherfactorsnot taken into accountin the explanation.Sporadically, attempts have been made to systematically investigate these in uences, but none of these seems to have had a lasting impact. Today we are still not much further with respect to preference change than we were at the middle of the last century. This anthology hopes to provide a new impulse for research into this important subject. In particular, we have chosen two routes to amplify this impulse. First, we stress the use of modellingtechniquesfamiliar from economicsand decision theory. Instead of constructing complex, all-encompassing theories of preference change, the authors of this volume start with very simple, formal accounts of some possible and hopefully plausible mechanism of preference change. Eventually, these models may nd their way into larger, empirically adequate theories, but at this stage, we think that the most importantwork lies in building structure.Secondly,we stress the importance of interdisciplinary exchange. Only by drawing together experts from different elds can the complex empirical and theoretical issues in the modelling of preference change be adequately investigated.

Reasoning about Preference Dynamics

Author : Fenrong Liu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400713444
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Reasoning about Preference Dynamics written by Fenrong Liu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our preferences determine how we act and think, but exactly what the mechanics are and how they work is a central cause of concern in many disciplines. This book uses techniques from modern logics of information flow and action to develop a unified new theory of what preference is and how it changes. The theory emphasizes reasons for preference, as well as its entanglement with our beliefs. Moreover, the book provides dynamic logical systems which describe the explicit triggers driving preference change, including new information, suggestions, and commands. In sum, the book creates new bridges between many fields, from philosophy and computer science to economics, linguistics, and psychology. For the experienced scholar access to a large body of recent literature is provided and the novice gets a thorough introduction to the action and techniques of dynamic logic.

Neuroscience of Preference and Choice

Author : Raymond J. Dolan
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123814316
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Neuroscience of Preference and Choice written by Raymond J. Dolan and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most pressing questions in neuroscience, psychology and economics today is how does the brain generate preferences and make choices? With a unique interdisciplinary approach, this volume is among the first to explore the cognitive and neural mechanisms mediating the generation of the preferences that guide choice. From preferences determining mundane purchases, to social preferences influencing mating choice, through to moral decisions, the authors adopt diverse approaches to answer the question. Chapters explore the instability of preferences and the common neural processes that occur across preferences. Edited by one of the world's most renowned cognitive neuroscientists, each chapter is authored by an expert in the field, with a host of international contributors. Emphasis on common process underlying preference generation makes material applicable to a variety of disciplines - neuroscience, psychology, economics, law, philosophy, etc. Offers specific focus on how preferences are generated to guide decision making, carefully examining one aspect of the broad field of neuroeconomics and complementing existing volumes Features outstanding, international scholarship, with chapters written by an expert in the topic area

Elicitation of Preferences

Author : Baruch Fischhoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401714061
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Elicitation of Preferences written by Baruch Fischhoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences. Economists, who have made preference the central primitive in their thinking about human behavior, have for the most part rejected elicitation and have instead sought to infer preferences from observations of choice behavior. Psychologists, who have tended to think of preference as a context-determined subjective construct, have embraced elicitation as their dominant approach to measurement. This volume, based on a symposium organized by Daniel McFadden at the University of California at Berkeley, provides a provocative and constructive engagement between economists and psychologists on the elicitation of preferences.

Choice and Preference in Media Use

Author : Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317675142
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Choice and Preference in Media Use by : Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick

Download or read book Choice and Preference in Media Use written by Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediated messages flood our daily lives, through virtually endless choices of media channels, genres, and content. However, selectivity determines what media messages we attend to and focus on. The present book examines the factors that influence this selectivity. Seminal books on selective media exposure were published in 1960 by Klapper and in 1985 by Zillmann and Bryant. But an integrated update on this research field is much needed, as rigorous selective exposure research has flourished in the new millennium. In the contexts of political communication, health communication, Internet use, entertainment consumption, and electronic games, the crucial question of how individuals choose what content they consume has garnered much attention. The present book integrates theories and empirical evidence from these domains and discusses the related research methodologies. In light of the ever-increasing abundance of media channels and messages, selective exposure has become more important than ever for media impacts. This monograph provides a comprehensive review of the research on selective exposure to media messages, which is at the heart of communication science and media effects. It is required reading for media scholars and researchers, and promises to influence and inspire future research.

Private Truths, Public Lies

Author : Timur Kuran
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248139
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Private Truths, Public Lies written by Timur Kuran and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the food when we actually find it bland. In Private Truths, Public Lies Kuran argues convincingly that the phenomenon not only is ubiquitous but has huge social and political consequences. Drawing on diverse intellectual traditions, including those rooted in economics, psychology, sociology, and political science, Kuran provides a unified theory of how preference falsification shapes collective decisions, orients structural change, sustains social stability, distorts human knowledge, and conceals political possibilities. A common effect of preference falsification is the preservation of widely disliked structures. Another is the conferment of an aura of stability on structures vulnerable to sudden collapse. When the support of a policy, tradition, or regime is largely contrived, a minor event may activate a bandwagon that generates massive yet unanticipated change. In distorting public opinion, preference falsification also corrupts public discourse and, hence, human knowledge. So structures held in place by preference falsification may, if the condition lasts long enough, achieve increasingly genuine acceptance. The book demonstrates how human knowledge and social structures co-evolve in complex and imperfectly predictable ways, without any guarantee of social efficiency. Private Truths, Public Lies uses its theoretical argument to illuminate an array of puzzling social phenomena. They include the unexpected fall of communism, the paucity, until recently, of open opposition to affirmative action in the United States, and the durability of the beliefs that have sustained India's caste system.

Pleasure, Reward, Preference

Author : D. E. Berlyne
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483273725
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Pleasure, Reward, Preference written by D. E. Berlyne and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasure, Reward, Preference: Their Nature, Determinants, and Role in Behavior covers the proceedings of a symposium by the same title, held at the Klarskovgaard Training Institute, near Korsør, Denmark, on June 5-9 1972, organized under the auspices of the Advisory Group on Human Factors of the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This book is composed of 11 chapters, and starts with a historical perspective and review of the principal problems related to understanding the principles of pleasure, reward, and preference. The next chapters explore neurophysiological research with animals and the human cognitive phenomena. These topics are followed by discussions of the concept of exploratory choice, verbal judgment, the law of effects and an adaptation-level model for affectivity and perception. The concluding chapters provide examples of behavioristic theories and describe a process model of motivation to understand the complexity of cognition and predictability of behavior. These chapters also tackle the role of pleasure and reward in human motivation and learning, as well as present a metascientific frame of motivation. This text will prove useful to psychologists, behaviorist, and researchers.

Preference Modelling

Author : Marc Roubens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642465501
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Preference Modelling written by Marc Roubens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following scheme summarizes the different families introduced in this chapter and the connections between them. Family of interval orders f Row-homogeneous Column-homogeneous Family of family of interval semi orders family of interval orders orders Homogeneous family of i nterva 1 orders Homogeneous family of semi orders Family of weak orders 85 5.13. EXAMPLES We let to the reader the verification of the following assertions. Example 1 is a family of interval orders which is neither row-homogeneous nor column-homogeneous. Example 2 is a column-homogeneous family of interval orders which is not row-homogeneous but where each interval order is a semiorder. Example 3 is an homogeneous family of interval orders which are not semiorders. Example 4 is an homogeneous family of semi orders . . 8 ~ __ --,b ~---i>---_ C a .2 d c Example Example 2 .8 .6 c .5 a 0 a d Example 3 Example 4 5.14. REFERENCES DOIGNON. J.-P •• Generalizations of interval orders. in E. Degreef and J. Van Buggenhaut (eds). T~ndS in MathematiaaZ PsyahoZogy. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), Amsterdam, 1984. FISHBURN. P.C., Intransitive indifference with unequal indifference intervals. J. Math. Psyaho.~ 7 (1970) 144-149. FISHBURN. P.C., Binary choice probabilities: on the varieties of stochastic transitivity. J. Math. Psyaho.~ 10 (1973) 327-352.

Preference and Information

Author : Dan Egonsson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754657255
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Preference and Information written by Dan Egonsson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standard preferentialist theories allege that a person's preferences and their satisfaction are the correct measure of well-being. In this book, Egonsson presents a critical analysis of the full-information account of the good, which claims that only the satisfaction of rational and fully informed preferences has value for a person.

Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest, The

Author : Jeffrey Herbener
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610162366
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Pure Time-Preference Theory of Interest, The written by Jeffrey Herbener and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice

Author : Sylvia J.T. Jansen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048188946
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice by : Sylvia J.T. Jansen

Download or read book The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice written by Sylvia J.T. Jansen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the answers, researchers are faced with a wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a valid research method, one needs a well-structured overview of the methods that are used in housing preference and housing choice research. This comprehensive introduction to this field offers just such an overview. It discusses and compares numerous methods, detailing the potential limitation of each one, and it reaches beyond methodology, illustrating how thoughtful consideration of methods and techniques in research can help researchers and other professionals to deliver products and services that are more in line with residents’ needs.