Bayesian Interactive Decision Support for Multi-Attribute Problems with Even Swaps

Abstract

Even swaps is a method for solving de-terministic multi-attribute decision problems where the decision maker iteratively simpli-fies the problem until the optimal alterna-tive is revealed (Hammond et al. 1998, 1999). We present a new practical decision support system that takes a Bayesian approach to guiding the even swaps process, where the system makes queries based on its beliefs about the decision maker’s preferences and updates them as the interactive process un-folds. Through experiments, we show that it is possible to learn enough about the decision maker’s preferences to measurably reduce the cognitive burden, i.e. the number and com-plexity of queries posed by the system. 1

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Text

Bhattacharjya and Kephart. "Bayesian Interactive Decision Support for Multi-Attribute Problems with Even Swaps." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2014.

Markdown

[Bhattacharjya and Kephart. "Bayesian Interactive Decision Support for Multi-Attribute Problems with Even Swaps." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2014.](https://mlanthology.org/uai/2014/bhattacharjya2014uai-bayesian/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{bhattacharjya2014uai-bayesian,
  title     = {{Bayesian Interactive Decision Support for Multi-Attribute Problems with Even Swaps}},
  author    = {Bhattacharjya, Debarun and Kephart, Jeffrey O.},
  booktitle = {Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2014},
  pages     = {72-81},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/uai/2014/bhattacharjya2014uai-bayesian/}
}