Adaptive Preferences, Adapted Preferences

Planning tourist visits adapted to user preferences

In this paper, we present a work that is part of a running project, SAMAP 1. The aim of the project is to make tourist plans for a user in an ’intelligent’ way, considering its preferences to propose a list of activities that better adjusts to its profile. The application could run in any device with Internet connection capabilities, such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) or mobile phones. I...

Adaptive Preferences and Women’s Empowerment

Adaptive Appointment Systems with Patient Preferences

P satisfaction with an appointment system when they attempt to book a nonurgent appointment is affected by their ability to book with a doctor of choice and to book an appointment at a convenient time of day. For medical conditions requiring urgent attention, patients want quick access to a familiar physician. For such instances, it is important for clinics to have open slots that allow same-da...

Adaptive Conjoint Analysis of Professionals’ Job Preferences

Job preferences are a well-developed research field. Many studies analyze the preferences using simple ratings with a sample of university graduates. The current study analyzes the preferences with a mixed method approach of a qualitative preliminary study and adaptive conjoint-analysis. Preconditions of accepting job offers are clarified for professionals in the industrial sector. It could be ...

Adaptive intertemporal preferences in foraging-style environments

Decision makers often face choices between smaller more immediate rewards and larger more delayed rewards. For example, when foraging for food, animals must choose between actions that have varying costs (e.g., effort, duration, energy expenditure) and varying benefits (e.g., amount of food intake). The combination of these costs and benefits determine what optimal behavior is. In the present s...