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2009 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
Towards Diverse Relaxations of Over-Constrained Models
Newark, New Jersey
November 02-November 04
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3920-1
In many interactive decision making scenarios there is often no solution that satisfies all of the user's preferences. The decision process can be helped by providing explanations. Relaxations show sets of consistent preferences and, thus, indicate which preferences can be enforced, while exclusion sets show which preferences can be relaxed to obtain a solution. Many approaches have been proposed to generate relaxations of over-constrained sets of constraints. However, most focus on generating a single relaxation. In this paper we study a variety of heuristic methods for generating diverse sets of relaxations. We show that a heuristic based approach can generate diverse relaxations quickly enough to support user interaction. We also describe a prototype explanation visualisation tool that can help a user navigate over diverse sets of explanations.
Index Terms:
Constraint satisfaction, Explanation
Citation:
John Horan, Barry O'Sullivan, "Towards Diverse Relaxations of Over-Constrained Models," ictai, pp.198-205, 2009 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2009
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