Preference-Based Search and Multi-Criteria Optimization

Ulrich Junker ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2004, vol. 130, issue 1, 75-115

Abstract: Many real-world AI problems (e.g., in configuration) are weakly constrained, thus requiring a mechanism for characterizing and finding the preferred solutions. Preference-based search (PBS) exploits preferences between decisions to focus search to preferred solutions, but does not efficiently treat preferences on global criteria such as the total price or quality of a configuration. We generalize PBS to compute balanced, extreme, and Pareto-optimal solutions for general CSPs, thus handling preferences on and between multiple criteria. A master-PBS selects criteria based on trade-offs and preferences and passes them as an optimization objective to a sub-PBS that performs a constraint-based Branch-and-Bound search. We project the preferences of the selected criterion to the search decisions to provide a search heuristic and to reduce search effort, thus giving the criterion a high impact on the search. The resulting method will be particularly effective for CSPs with large domains that arise if configuration catalogues are large. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

Keywords: preferences; nonmonotonic reasoning; constraint satisfaction; multi-criteria optimization; search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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