Revealed preference in argumentation: Algorithms and applications

Revealed Preference and its Applications

This note contains a short history of my work on the foundations of revealed preference, emphasizing the intellectual influence of Sydney Afriat. I also present a few “novel” applications of revealed preference analysis drawn from some areas of applied economics.

Preference Reasoning for Argumentation: Non-monotonicity and Algorithms

In this paper we are interested in the role of preferences in argumentation theory. To promote a higher impact of preference reasoning in argumentation, we introduce a novel preference-based argumentation theory. Using non-monotonic preference reasoning we derive a Dung-style attack relation from a preference specification together with a defeat relation. In particular, our theory uses efficien...

Preference mining and preference repositories: design, algorithms and personalized applications

Temptation and Revealed Preference

Gul and Pesendorfer [9] model the static behavior of an agent who ranks menus prior to the experience of temptation. This paper models the dynamic behavior of an agent whose ranking of menus itself is subject to temptation. The representation for the agent’s dynamically inconsistent choice behavior views him as possessing a dynamically consistent view of what choices he “should”make (a normativ...

Acyclic Argumentation: Attack = Conflict + Preference

In this paper we study the fragment of Dung’s argumentation theory in which the strict attack relation is acyclic. We show that every attack relation satisfying a particular property can be represented by a symmetric conflict relation and a transitive preference relation in the following way. We define an instance of Dung’s abstract argumentation theory, in which ‘argument A attacks argument B’...