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Preference Learning

  • This is the first book dedicated to this topic
  • This topic has attracted considerable attention in artificial intelligence research in recent years
  • A comprehensive treatment
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Label Ranking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
    1. Preference Learning: An Introduction

      • Johannes Fürnkranz, Eyke Hüllermeier
      Pages 1-17
  3. Label Ranking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
    2. Label Ranking Algorithms: A Survey

      • Shankar Vembu, Thomas Gärtner
      Pages 45-64
    3. Preference Learning and Ranking by Pairwise Comparison

      • Johannes Fürnkranz, Eyke Hüllermeier
      Pages 65-82
    4. Decision Tree Modeling for Ranking Data

      • Philip L. H. Yu, Wai Ming Wan, Paul H. Lee
      Pages 83-106
    5. Co-Regularized Least-Squares for Label Ranking

      • Evgeni Tsivtsivadze, Tapio Pahikkala, Jorma Boberg, Tapio Salakoski, Tom Heskes
      Pages 107-123
  4. Instance Ranking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. A Survey on ROC-based Ordinal Regression

      • Willem Waegeman, Bernard De Baets
      Pages 127-154
    3. Ranking Cases with Classification Rules

      • Jianping Zhang, Jerzy W. Bala, Ali Hadjarian, Brent Han
      Pages 155-177
  5. Object Ranking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. A Survey and Empirical Comparison of Object Ranking Methods

      • Toshihiro Kamishima, Hideto Kazawa, Shotaro Akaho
      Pages 181-201
    3. Dimension Reduction for Object Ranking

      • Toshihiro Kamishima, Shotaro Akaho
      Pages 203-215
    4. Learning of Rule Ensembles for Multiple Attribute Ranking Problems

      • Krzysztof Dembczyński, Wojciech Kotłowski, Roman Słowiński, Marcin Szeląg
      Pages 217-247
  6. Preferences in Multi-Attribute Domains

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
    2. Learning Lexicographic Preference Models

      • Fusun Yaman, Thomas J. Walsh, Michael L. Littman, Marie desJardins
      Pages 251-272
    3. Learning Ordinal Preferences on Multiattribute Domains: The Case of CP-nets

      • Yann Chevaleyre, Frédéric Koriche, Jérôme Lang, Jérôme Mengin, Bruno Zanuttini
      Pages 273-296
    4. Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis: Classification vs. Discrete Choice Models

      • Joachim Giesen, Klaus Mueller, Bilyana Taneva, Peter Zolliker
      Pages 297-315

About this book

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.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“The book looks at three major types of preference learning: label ranking, instance ranking, and object ranking. … chapters contain case studies and actual experiments to illustrate the claims made within. … this is a useful book in an emerging and important area, and hence would be of interest to machine learning researchers. The book is quite readable to that audience, despite a heavy emphasis on formal treatment.” (M. Sasikumar, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Johannes Fürnkranz

  • FB Mathematik und Informatik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    Eyke Hüllermeier

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Preference Learning

  • Editors: Johannes Fürnkranz, Eyke Hüllermeier

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14125-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-14124-9Published: 10 October 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42230-0Published: 28 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-14125-6Published: 19 November 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 466

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

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