A Framework to Manage Conditional Constraints and Qualitative Preferences.
Eisa Alanazi, Malek Mouhoub · 2013
A conditional CSP is a well known formalism for manag-ing constraints in a dynamic environment where the possible changes are known a priori and can be enumerated before-hand. In this paper we argue that mixing preferences with Conditional CSPs brings more intuitive meaning to many real world applications. For example, in a product configuration problem the user preferences often co-exist with the config-uration requirements in a dynamic environment. We propose here an extension of the Conditional CSP formalism in order to consider qualitative preferences. We use CP-nets as a rep-resentation for these preferences and define new concepts for preserving their semantics in dynamic settings.