Séminaire Donnees et APprentissage ArtificielRSS

Robust recommendations and their explanation in multi-criteria decision aiding

20/02/2014
Intervenant(s) : Christophe Labreuche (Thales)
Multi-Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) aims at helping an individual to make choices among alternatives described by several attributes, from a (small) set of learning data representing her preferences. MCDA has a wide range of applications in smart cities, engineering, recommender systems and so on. Among the variety of available decision models, one can cite the weighted majority, additive utility, weighted sum or the Choquet integral.
Once the expression of the decision model has been chosen, the generation of choices among alternatives is classically done as follows. In a constraint approach, from a set of learning data (representing for instance comparisons of alternatives), one then looks for the value of the model parameters compatible with the learning data, which maximizes some functional, e.g. an entropy or a separation variable on the learning data. The comparisons among alternatives are then obtained by applying the model with the previously constructed parameters. The major difficulty the decision maker faces is that there usually does not exist one unique value of the parameters compatible with the learning data. Hence this approach introduces much arbitrariness since the generated preferences are much stronger than the learning data.
Robust preference relations have been recently introduced in MCDA to overcome this difficulty. An alternative is said to be necessarily preferred to another one if the first one dominates the second for any value of the parameters compatible with the learning data. In Artificial Intelligence, this operator is often called entailment. It is actually a closure operator. This necessity preference relation is usually incomplete, unless the model is completely specified from the preferential information of the decision maker.
The introduction of robust preference relation brings many new challenges:
  • algorithmic aspects: how to design efficient algorithms to construct it?
  • explanation: how to explain to the decision maker the recommended robust preferences? In other words, how are the recommendations derived from the learning data?
We will address these points in the talk.

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