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An Axiomatic Approach to Revising Preferences (Extended Abstract)

EasyChair Preprint no. 8827

3 pagesDate: September 11, 2022

Abstract

We study a model of preference revision in which a prior preference over a set of alternatives is adjusted in order to accommodate input from an authoritative source, while maintaining certain structural constraints (e.g., transitivity, completeness), and without giving up more information than strictly necessary. We analyze this model under two aspects: the first allows us to capture natural distance-based operators, at the cost of a mismatch between the input and output formats of the revision operator. Requiring the input and output to be aligned yields a second type of operator, which we characterize using preferences on the comparisons in the prior preference. Preference revision is set in a logic-based framework and using the formal machinery of belief change, along the lines of the well-known AGM approach: we propose rationality postulates for each of the two versions of our model and derive representation results, thus situating preference revision within the larger family of belief change operators.

Keyphrases: belief change, belief revision, preferences

BibTeX entry
BibTeX does not have the right entry for preprints. This is a hack for producing the correct reference:
@Booklet{EasyChair:8827,
  author = {Adrian Haret and Johannes Wallner},
  title = {An Axiomatic Approach to Revising Preferences (Extended Abstract)},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 8827},

  year = {EasyChair, 2022}}
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