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CISM COURSES AND LECTURES

Series Editors:

The Rectors
Giulio Maier - Milan
Jean Salençon - Palaiseau
Wilhelm Schneider - Wien

The Secretary General


Bernhard Schrefler - Padua

Executive Editor
Paolo Serafini - Udine

The series presents lecture notes, monographs, edited works and


proceedings in the field of Mechanics, Engineering, Computer Science
and Applied Mathematics.
Purpose of the series is to make known in the international scientific
and technical community results obtained in some of the activities
organized by CISM, the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences.
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MECHANICAL SCIENCES

COURSES AND LECTURES - No. 504

PREFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

EDITED BY

GIACOMO DELLA RICCIA


UNIVERSITY OF UDINE

DIDIER DUBOIS
UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE

RUDOLF KRUSE
UNIVERSITY OF MAGDEBURG

HANS-JOACHIM LENZ
FREIE UNIVERSITӒT BERLIN
This volume contains 29 illustrations

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ISBN 978-3-211-85431-0 SpringerWienNewYork




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Proximities in Statistics:
Similarity and Distance

Hans –J. Lenz

Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Abstract We review similarity and distance measures used in Statistics for clustering and
classification. We are motivated by the lack of most measures to adequately utilize a non
uniform distribution defined on the data or sample space.
Such measures are mappings from O x O o R+ where O is either a finite set of objects or
vector space like Rp and R+ is the set of non-negative real numbers. In most cases those
mappings fulfil conditions like symmetry and reflexivity. Moreover, further
characteristics like transitivity or the triangle equation in case of distance measures are of
concern.
We start with Hartigan‘s list of proximity measures which he compiled in 1967. It is good
practice to pay special attention to the type of scales of the variables involved, i.e. to
nominal (often binary), ordinal and metric (interval and ratio) types of scales. We are
interested in the algebraic structure of proximities as suggested by Hartigan (1967) and
Cormack (1971), information-theoretic measures as discussed by Jardine and Sibson
(1971), and the probabilistic W-distance measure as proposed by Skarabis (1970). The
last measure combines distances of objects or vectors with their corresponding
probabilities to improve overall discrimination power. The idea is that rare events, i.e. set
of values with a very low probability of observing, related to a pair of objects may be a
strong hint to strong similarity of this pair.

1 Introduction

1.1 Frame of discernment


First we present some types of objects which are considered later, i.e. tupels,
vectors or records, sets and probability distribution functions. Of course, there
exists a unified view in form of sets embedded into a Cartesian space, but it is
helpful to look at them separately.
Given a two-dimensional data space we can define several distances between
two tupels.
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Fig.1: Distance d between two tupels

A slightly different situation is given when two sets are to be compared.

Fig.2: Distance dH between two sets

It seems worthwhile considering a further case where two probability distribu-


tions are given.

Fig.3: Distance d between two distribution


functions
In the following we present some examples which will highlight some weakness
of traditional proximity (“nearness”) measures when prior information is
available.

1.2 Examples
Our first example consists of a sample of five tupels xi R2, i=1,2,…,5 with
x1T= (1, 21); x2T= (0, 20); x3T= (1, 1); x4T= (0, 0); x5T= (1, 30). The Euclidean
distance dE is used as a distance measure, i.e. dE(x, y) = (x – y)T(x – y) with x,
y R2. We can easily compute dE(x1, x2) |1,4 ; dE(x3, x4) |1,4 ; dE(x2, x5) |10.
Proximities in Statistics: Similarity and Distance 163


Fig. 4: Sample Space

Assume now that the data are normally distributed with X, Y ~ N(0, 1). We
observe that observations x3, x4 are equal or „near” to the centre PT = (0, 0) of the
distribution. Their distance is dE(x3, x4) |1,4. The same distance is computed for
the first two tupels x1, x2, which may be considered as outliers due to their very
large second component. However, if we compare another “outlier pair”, i.e. (x2,
x5) we notice that the Euclidean distance dE increases to dE(x2, x5) |10. To the
best of the author’s knowledge Skarabis (1970) was the first to point to this
phenomenon.
We present a further example to stress the necessity for including probabilities of
observations besides of the dissimilarities when comparing pairs of objects. We
consider only one (Boolean) attribute and n = 4 objects: x1= 1; x2= 1; x3= 2; x4=
2. The semantic of the random variable X (“Behaviour in winter time”) becomes
important. X=1 is the code of “Take a bath in an icy lake in winter” while X=2
stands for “Take a warm coat”. Assume that each observation xi,
i = 1,2,3,4, is linked to one and only one person. Pair wise comparisons of
persons o1, o2 and o3, o4 by a Hamming distance dH(xi,xj) = _xi - xj_, say, delivers
dH(x1,x2) = dH(x3,x4) = 0. We induce that both pairs are equally similar. However,
the probabilities of both values are generally very different due to P(X=1) <<
P(X=2), i.e. only few people use to take a outdoor bath in the winter time but
almost all wear warm clothes at winter time. It is exactly this low probability
which makes the first pair more similar to each other than the second one. This
effect motivated Skarabis (1970) to define a probability – based distance
measure dw which should fulfil dW(x1, x2) < dW(x3, x4).
As a further example, take text mining which is mostly corresponding to a
classification problem. As Frakes and Baeza-Yates (1992) point out words that
occur extremely rarely are likely to be of no statistical relevance and thus may be
dropped. Now assume one detects in two documents about movies the term
“superkalifragilistic exialidocious”. Such words are artificial, extremely low
frequent but very informative because they give a strong hint to the movie “Mary
Poppins” to which the documents may refer to. How can one incorporate such
prior knowledge into a proximity measure?
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2 Similarity and Distance measures


A common way to measure dissimilarity between objects or numeric vectors of
measurements defined on a data space X is to use distance functions. A minimal
characteristic is that a distance function d - as well as similarity function s –
should have a non negative range d(x,y) t 0 and be self similar, i.e. d(x,x) = 0.
Def.1: A measurable function d: X2oRt0 where X is an arbitrary set, is called a
distance (metric) iff for all x, y, zX we have:
1. d(x, y) = 0 Ù x = y (reflexive)
2. d(x, y) = d(y, x) (symmetric)
3. d(x, z) d d(x, y) + d(y, z) (triangle inequality).

In Def.1 we note that relaxing 3. by d(x, z) d max{d(x, y), d(y, z)} d d(,x y) + d(y,
z) leads to ultrametricity which is commonly used in science, cf. Murtagh
(2007). Hartigan (1967) published a list of twelve possible proximity measures
which are reprinted in Cormack (1971) and Cox and Cox (2001). His list
includes metric, real-valued, symmetric real-valued, Euclidean distances and
various kinds of complete or partial orderings as well as partitions of X2. As
these measures strongly depend on the underlying scales of the variables
involved, we are going to present them accordingly, i.e. separated according to a
nominal or even binary, ordinal and metric (ratio or interval) scale.

2.1 Nominal or Binary Scales


Sneath and Sokal (1973), Hubálek (1982) and Cox and Cox (2001) give a
comprehensive table of similarity coefficients for binary data. Roughly speaking,
similarities are derivable from related distances. Using a parametric measure of
similarity one can represent most of those coefficient by one generalized
formula. For this purpose we consider the following frequency table:

Object s
Object r 1 0
1 a b
0 c d

Table 1: Frequency table of two binary attributes


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We use the parametric similarity coefficient as used by Steinhausen and Langer


(1977). Let O, G  R, O t 0, 0 d G d 1 and S rG,,sO (a  Gd ) /(a  Gd  O (b  c) . For
example, it follows the Jaccard-Tanimoto coefficient Sr,sJT= a/(a+b+c) for O=1,
G=0, the Rogers and Tanimoto coefficient Sr,sRT= (a+d)/(a+2(b+c)+d) for O=2,
G=1, the simple matching coefficient Sr,ssm = (a+d)/(a+b+c+d) for O=1, G=1 etc.

2.2 Ordinal Scales

Variables are called ordinal scaled if the relational operators ‘=’, ‘z’, ‘<’, and ‘>’
are feasible. This implies that the operators ‘min’ and ‘max’ are applicable, too.
There a three alternatives how to handle variables which have ordinal scales.
First, reduce the ordinal scale to a nominal one. In this case one accepts a loss of
(ordering) information. Second, one can use Gower’s (1971) general similarity
coefficient (“average possible similarity”) Sr,sG = (6Zrsi srsi)/ 6Zrsi, where srsi is
the similarity between the rth and sth object based on the ith variable alone and
Zrsi is an indicator function with Zrsi = 1 if the rth and sth object can be compared
on the ith variable Zrsi = 0 if not. Finally, one can use ranks instead of
measurements for each variable l =1,2,…,p. The sample (xi)i=1,2,…,n is sorted in
ascending order, i.e. x[1]d x[2] d…d x[n]. The rank ri is the position of object i in
the order statistic (x[i])i=1,2,…,n, i.e. Rank(xi)= ri = k if xi = x[k]. Let yil = ril/nl
appropriately scaled ranks with yil  [0,1] and nl is the number of ranks. The
“Canberra-Metric” applied on ranks is proposed, cf. Steinhausen and Langer
(1977), which is scale-invariant.

p y il  y jl
d ( yi , y j ) ¦ y il  y jl
(1)
l 1

2.3 Metric Scales


If the measurements are metric scaled, i.e. ratio or interval scaled - dependent
upon the existence of an absolute zero, one usually represents the measurement
vectors (x1,x2,…,xn) of a sample of size n as tupels (“points”) in the p-
dimensional space Rp of real numbers. Like in the qualitative case a lot of
dissimilarity measures are proposed.

2.3.1 Distance Measures in Statistics


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p k
d k ( x, y) (¦ x l  y l )1 / k (2)
l 1

The most important parametric family of distance measures is the Minkowski


metric which is defined as follows:
At least, three special cases are important:
p
k=1: Manhattan distance (city block distance) d 1 ( x, y ) ¦ xl  yl 
l 1
1/ 2
§ p ·
k=2: Euclidean distance d 2 ( x, y ) ¨ ¦ x l  y l 2 ¸
¨ ¸
©l 1 ¹

kof: maximum distance df(x, y)=max l=1,...,p |xl - yl|.

These distances correspond to different kinds of neighbourhood which is


illustrated in the following diagrams.
    
        
        
        
        
  Fig.5a: k=1 Fig. 5b: k=2 Fig.5c: kof

The family of Minkowski metrics has the following main features:


x translation invariance, i.e. dk is not affected by a
translation
x o x + c, where c  Rp not scale invariant nor
dimensional-free
x not sensitive to non-uniform probability
distributions on Rp; invariant to orthogonal linear
transformations.
Skipping further distance measures like Canberra metric, divergence coefficient,
cosine distance etc., cf. Cox and Cox (2001) , we turn to the Mahalanobis
distance (1936). The distance measure is dimension-free, invariant with respect
to orthogonal transformations and is further scale-invariant.

Def. 2: Let x, y  Rp be random vectors and 6 the corresponding covariance

d M ( x, y ) ( x  y )T  1 ( x  y ) (3)
matrix. Then
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is called Mahalanobis distance.


This measure is influenced not only by the difference (x – y), but by the
variances and correlation of the corresponding variables, too. The covariance
1
matrix is defined by ¦ XY ¦ ( xl  P )( yl  P )T
n 1 l
and the mean vector by

1
μ
n
¦ xl . Evidently, the Mahalanobis distance depends upon the distribution
l
PX on Rp only by the first two moments, i.e. the covariance matrix 6 and –
indirectly - the mean P..
Contrarily, the Kullback-Leibler divergence dKLof two distributions P1 and P2 on
p p
R measures the mean information given observation x R to separate P1 and
P2, c.f. Kullback (1959).

Def. 3: Let P1 and P2 be two probability distributions with Radon-Nikodym


dP
densities i pi (x) for i=1,2. Then
dOi

p1 ( x )
d KL ( P1, P2 ) ³ ( p1 ( x )  p2 ( x )) log p dO x (4)
2 ( x)

is called Kullback-Leibler divergence. The Mahalanobis distance and the


Kullback-Leibler measure are equivalent under the specific assumptions of
Gaussian distributions and equal covariance matrices, cf. Skarabis (1971).
p
Lemma 1: Let the data space R with x, y ~ N(Pi, 6i) { Pi for i=1,2. Furthermore
assume that 61 = 62. Then d KL ( P1, P2 ) ( μ1  μ2 )T  1 ( μ1  μ2 ) .
Instead of a distance measure it is often more convenient to use a similarity
measure. It can be derived by any (non-linear) monotone non-increasing
mapping. Analogue to distances one can define

Def. 4: A measurable function s: X2oR[0,1] where X is an arbitrary set, is called


a similarity measure iff for all x, y, zX

x s(x,x) =1 (self-similarity)
x s(x,y) = s(y,x) (symmetry)
x s(xi,yj) = 1 Ÿ oi=oj (object identity)
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x s(x,z) d s(x,y) s(y,z) /(s(x,y)+s(y,z)) (analogue to triangle


inequality)

As is well known it is difficult in some applications to establish symmetry as


well as transitivity of s. As intuitively a great similarity means a small distance
between two objects there exist a large set of transformations for switching from
distances to similarity and vice versa, cf. Steinhausen and Langer (1977) and
Borgelt (2006). For example, d = 1 - s or d = (1-s)1/2 may be such mappings.

2.3.2 Point wise Distance Measures


Another area of application of similarity or distance measures comes up when
pairs of functions or probability distributions are to be compared. There exist two
principles for deriving appropriate measures: One can make a point wise
comparison (“supremum-norm”) or one can use the area (“integral norm”)
between both functions. We start with the first group.
Assume that we have to compare a given distribution function F0 with an
empirical frequency distribution Fn which is defined by

By definition both functions are monotonically non-decreasing. Then the


Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance measure dKS is given by
d KS sup Fn ( x)  F ( x) max{D n , D n } where D n max( Fn ( x)  F ( x)) and
D n max( F n ( x )  F n ( x ) F ( x )) . Fig. 6 illustrates the KS-measure for
the case above.

Fig. 6: Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance


Proximities in Statistics: Similarity and Distance 169

Evidently, the distance is measured at one and only one point in the domain R,
i.e.
arg sup _Fn(x)-F(x) _|0.459.
Another idea is to measure the distance between two non empty point sets of
some metric spaces. This approach was proposed for instance to discriminate
between membership functions used in fuzzy logic, cf. Kruse and Meyer (1987).
Let (X , dX ) be a metric space. We first define the distance between a point x 
X and the non empty set A Ž X by d h ( x, A) inf d x ( x, A) . Then applying
aA
dH to both non empty sets A, B Ž X we get

Def.5: Let A, B Ž X . The distance measure


d H ( A,B ) max{d * ( A, B ), d * ( B , A )} (5)
where d * ( A, B ) sup d H (a , B ) is called Hausdorff metric.
a A
There exists a draw back of dH when being applied to two parameterised curves.
As mentioned above dH measures the distance between sets of some metric
space. So it discards the parameterisation and is applied to the range or image set
of both curves. This can lead to the nasty side effect of a low distance between
two curves while they appear to be quite different from visual inspection as
shown in fig. 6, cf. the distance value G.

Fig. 7: Hausdorff metric dH applied to two curves

In 1906 Frechét introduced a pseudo-metric which is more appropriate for


functions with a finite number of parameters. The Fréchet distance can be
illustrated as follows. Suppose a man is walking his dog and that he is
constrained to walk on a curve and his dog on another curve on a plane. Let both
the man and the dog control their speed independently. They are not allowed to
go backwards. Then, the Fréchet distance of the curves is the minimal length of a
leash that is necessary. More formally, we have, cf. Godan (1991):
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Def.5: Let f: AoX and g: BoX be continuous mappings , (X, dX) a metric space
and let A, B Ž Rd be homeomorphic to [0,1]d for fixed dimension dN. Let D:
AoB be an orientation preserving homeomorphism. Then
d F ( f , g ) inf sup d F ( f ( x), g (D ( x))) (6)
D xA
is called Fréchet distance of f, g. 
As an example we take d = 1 and consider two (polygonal) curves. We use a
linear function D. The Fréchet distance dF is marked.

dF

Fig. 8: Fréchet distance dF

The following point wise distance measure receives a lot of attention in the
asymptotic theory in Statistics. It is originated by Levy (1937) and is specially
tailored to measure distances between not strictly but monotonically increasing
functions, i.e. probability distribution functions.
Def. 6: Let F, G be continuous distribution functions. Then
d L ( F, G ) inf{H F ( x H )  H d G ( x) d F ( x  H )  H for all x  R} (7)
(7)
is called Levy distance between F and G.

Rewriting (7) we get


d L (F, G ) sup inf ^H ! 0 : G(x - H - H d F(x) d G(x  H )  H ` . It can be easily
shown that
—2 dL(F,G) is the maximum distance between F and G taken under an angle of
45o, cf. Fig. 9.
Proximities in Statistics: Similarity and Distance 171

—2 dL(F,G)

Fig. 9: Levy distance between distribution functions F, G

2.2.3 Distances based on Integral Norms


While the distance measures discussed so far measure the distance between two
monotone increasing functions F and G “point wise” there exists a broad
spectrum of competitors which make use of “ integral norms”.

Def.7: Let F be a proper distribution function with related density function f, Fn a


sampled corresponding empirical distribution function and \ a finite-parameter
weighting function. Then an integral based distance is given by
f 2
d Int ( F , Fn ) ³ >Fn ( x)  F ( x)@ \ ( x) f ( x)dx (8)
f
It is worthwhile considering at least two special cases:
Selecting the weighting function \ ( x) [ F ( x)(1  F ( x))] 1 one gets the
( Fn ( x)  F ( x)) 2
Anderson - Darling distance A 2 n³ f ( x)dx , and using \(x)=1
R
F ( x)(1  F ( x))
the Cramér-von-Mises distance Q n ³ ( Fn ( x)  F ( x)) 2 f ( x)dx .
R
172 H-J. Lenz

3 W-Distance
Now, we come back to the example presented in the introductory section 1.2.
The main message of the example was that two people who go swimming in an
icy lake are more similar than a pair who is wearing warm winter clothes during
winter time. Roughly speaking, two objects or people are more similar than
another pair if their features coincide with values which have a low probability.
Or the other way round: Observing rare values of objects is a stronger indication
of similarity between a pair than to observe values which always happen.
Evidently, the utilisation of such prior information should improve to determine
an appropriate similarity or distance coefficient.
As proposed by Skarabis (1970) the first step is to construct a complete quasi
order (X2, %| ) based on a distance d and a probability distribution P, where X
§ § x k · § xi · · §x ·
¨ ¨ ¸, ¨ ¸ ¸  L d,P œ §¨ k ·¸ %| ¨ i ¸
x
¨ ¨© x l ¸¹ ¨ x j ¸ ¸ ¨x ¸
© l¹
¨xj ¸
© © ¹¹ © ¹
R and |X| < f:
Having constructed Ld,P appropriately, one can compute the predecessor set Mij
of each pair (xi, xj)
­°§ xk · 2 § xk · § xi ·½°
M ij ®¨¨ ¸¸  X : ¨¨ ¸¸ %| ¨¨ ¸¸¾
°̄© xl ¹ © xl ¹ © x j ¹°¿
The distance of a pair wise observation (xi, xj )X2 is measured by the
probability of the set of all its ’ %| ‘- predecessors. We can now define the W-
distance, a shorthand notation for a probability (“Wahrscheinlichkeit”) based
distance.

Def. 8: DEF.: Let X  R and |X| < f. Then dW: (X2, %| ) o R[0, 1] with dW(xi, xj)
= PX(Mij) is called W-distance on X.
This measure has the following properties, cf. Skarabis (1970):
x symmetric: dW(xi, xj) = dW(xj, xi)

x normalized: dW(xi, xj) d 1

x the triangle inequality not (generally) fulfilled – depending upon PX

x dimension free.
Proximities in Statistics: Similarity and Distance 173

3.1 Unordered Set X


We apply now the dW to example no. 1 which is characterised by the triple (X,
PX, dX). We let X = {1, 2} where 1{„take a bath“, and 2{„take a coat“
(exclusive values). The distance dX is simple indicator function, i.e. dX(x, y)=1 if
x=y and dX(x, y)=0 else. The probability distribution PX on X is given by

xX x1 = 1 x2 =2
PX(x) 0,01 0,99
Table 2: probability distribution PX on X
­°ª§ xk · § xi ·º ½°
®«¨¨ ¸¸, ¨¨ x ¸¸»  X u X : xi
2 2
L1 x j and xk xl and P(xi ) t P(xk ) ¾
°̄«¬© xl ¹ © j ¹»¼ °¿

­°ª§ xk · § xi ·º ½°
®«¨¨ ¸¸, ¨¨ x ¸¸»  X u X : xi z x j and xk , xl any value ¾
2 2
L2
°̄«¬© xl ¹ © j ¹»¼ °¿

Then the quasi order (X2, %| ) can be determined as follows where Ld,P = L1 ‰
L2 .
The W-distance value for a pair who takes an icy bath is small and is given by
§ ­°§ x ·½° · 1
dW (x1 , x1 ) P( M 11 ) PX ¨ ®¨¨ 1 ¸¸¾ ¸ 0,0001
¨ °̄© x1 ¹° ¸ 100 2
© ¿¹

Contrarily, the W-distance value for a pair who wears a warm coat in winter
§ ­°§ x · § x ·½° · 1 99 2
dW (x2 , x2 ) P ( M 22 ) PX ¨ ®¨¨ 1 ¸¸, ¨¨ 2 ¸¸¾ ¸  # 0,9802
¨ °̄© x1 ¹ © x2 ¹° ¸ 100 2 100 2
© ¿¹
time is high
By definition, all other pairs (xi, xj) with unequal observations, xi z xj, have dw(xi,
xj) = 1.
Moreover, due the small cardinality of X the sets Ld,P = L1 ‰ L2 can be
completely enumerated.
­°ª§ x1 · § x2 ·º ½° ­°ª§ x1 · § x1 ·º ½°
L1 ®«¨¨ ¸¸, ¨¨ ¸¸» ¾ L2 ®«¨¨ ¸¸, ¨¨ ¸¸» ¾
°̄¬© x1 ¹ © x2 ¹¼ °¿ °̄¬© x2 ¹ © x2 ¹¼ °¿

Finally, the complete quasi order (X2, % | ) is given by

­§ x1 · § x2 · § x1 ·½
®¨¨ ¸¸, ¨¨ ¸¸, ¨¨ ¸¸¾
¯© x1 ¹ © x2 ¹ © x2 ¹¿
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One can summarize the computation of the W-distance for unordered sets X as
follows:
­ ¦ PX2 ( xk ) for all x x
° i j
dW ( xi , x j ) ® k pred ( xi ) (9)
°̄ for all x i z x j
1
where the set of predecessor pairs of xi is given by
pred ( xi ) ^k  N : PX ( xk ) d PX ( xi )`
for all i=1,2,….,n .

3.2 One-dimensional Metric Space X


We use as basic distance measure d a special form of a city block distance, i.e.
d(x, y) = _x - y_ for all x, y X=R. Therefore such problems are described by the
triple (R, PX, d).
As done before a (complete) preorder (R 2, %| ) is constructed for induced
similarity of pairs (x, y) of observations, however, this time the information from
the basic distance measure d as well as from the distribution PX is utilized as
follows:
The dW-distance is given by
­°§ x k · § x k · § x i · °½
d W ( xi , x j ) PX ®¨¨ ¸¸ : ¨¨ ¸¸ %| ¨¨ ¸¸ ¾
°̄© x l ¹ © x l ¹ © x j ¹ °¿
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L1
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> @
d ij and P( >xk , xl @ ) d P( xi , x j ) ¾
°̄ «¬© xl ¹ © x j ¹ »¼ °¿

We see that the W-distance is just the probability of the predecessor set of the
current pair (xi, xj) including this pair itself. Because of the preorder (X2, %| ) we
have again with Ld,P=L1‰L2.
§§ xk · § xi ·· §x ·
¨ ¨ ¸, ¨ ¸ ¸  Ld,P œ §¨ k ·¸ %| ¨ i ¸ .
x
¨ ¨© x l ¸¹ ¨ x j ¸ ¸ ¨x ¸
© l¹
¨xj ¸
© © ¹¹ © ¹
Therefore the pair (xk, xl) is more similar to each other than this is the case for (xi,
§ x · § xi ·
xj) if ¨¨ k ¸¸, ¨¨ ¸¸  L1 or L2. This means that either dkl < dij or if the basic (city
© xl ¹ © x j ¹
block) distances are equal, i.e. dkl = dij, then the inequality of probabilities,
PX((xk, xl)) d PX((xi, xj)) becomes true.
Proximities in Statistics: Similarity and Distance 175

We close with a final example. We consider the space X={0,2,3} R. Assume


for simplicity that we can apply on X 2 the (basic) city block metric d(xi,xj) = dij =
_xi - xj_. Then we determine the following distance matrix D = (dij) for all possible
pairs of observations:

Table 3: Basic Distance Matrix D

Assume that the following non uniform joint distribution PX 2 on X2 is given:

Table 4: PX 2 on X2

We can compute in a straighforward manner the complete preorder (X2, %| ) on


X2

From D and PX 2 we can easily derive distances like dW((3,3)) = 1/10 < dW((2,2))
= 2/10 < dW((2,3))=1. The last inequality is true because tupel (2,2) z (2,3) and
§§ 2· § 2··
therefore ¨¨ ¨¨ ¸¸, ¨¨ ¸¸ ¸¸  L1 .
©© 2¹ © 3¹¹

3.3 W-distance in Xp
We turn finally to the case where all observations xi, i=1,2,…,n, are p-tupels, not
necessarily real vectors. A response or measurement vector gets relative to a
prototype a small distance value if all its components are relatively small.
Therefore we can define the W-distance analogue to the univariate case for all
­°§ x · § x · § x i ·½°
dW ( x i , x j ) PX ®¨¨ k ¸¸ : ¨¨ k ¸¸ %| ¨¨ ¸¸¾
°̄© x l ¹ © x l ¹ © x j ¹°¿
176 H-J. Lenz

pairs of p-tupels, (xi, xj)T Xp x Xp:

As Skarabis (1970) proposed we can construct a complete preorder (Xp x Xp,


%| ) in order to determine the set of predecessors:
§ § xk · § xi · · §x ·
¨ ¨ ¸ , ¨ ¸ ¸  Ld, P œ §¨ k ·¸ %| ¨ i ¸
x
¨ ¨© x l ¸¹ ¨ x j ¸ ¸ ¨x ¸
© l¹
¨xj ¸
© © ¹¹ © ¹

If we define for each vector xi its l-th element by xi l , l =1,2,…,p, we can


consider component-wise W- distances d ijl ( x il , x jl ) for all l=1,2,…,p. Of
course, the basic distance used to construct dW strongly depends upon the scale
of measurements, i.e. nominal, ordinal or metric. Aggregation of the W-distances
d ijl ( x il , x jl ) is performed by multiplication as Skarabis (1971) proposed.
­°ª§ x k · § x i ·º p p ½°
®«¨¨ ¸¸, ¨¨ ¸¸»  X u X : – d kl d – d ijl ¾
2p 2p l
Ld ,P
°̄«¬© x l ¹ © x j ¹»¼ l 1 l 1 °¿
Evidently, other combination rules can be thought of.

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1# 0- -
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#      


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RFC J?U MD J?PEC LSK@CPQ GQ NPMTCL @W ? @CRRGLE QRP?RCEW RF?R KSJRGNJGCQ


RFC A?NGR?J GR PGQIQ @W ? J?PEC D?ARMP GD RFC RFCMPCKQ NPCBGARGML D?GJQ 7FCM
PCKQ NPMTCL GL RFGQ U?W ?NNJW LMR MLJW RM RFC AJ?QQGA?J A?QC UFCPC AMKNJCRC
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GL UFGAF 5C?JGRW QSAACQQGTCJW BCAGBCQ RFC MSRAMKCQ MD ? QCOSCLAC MD CTCLRQ
-SQR @CDMPC 5C?JGRW ?LLMSLACQ RFC MSRAMKC MD RFC RF CTCLR " "  GD RFC
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Defensive Forecasting 217

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MD 6ICNRGAQ ?LB 5C?JGRWQ QRP?RCEW GQ RF?R GR PCOSGPCQ RFCK RM @C ?@JC RM
RCJJ UFCRFCP  GQ CV?ARJW COS?J RM  ?LB RM QUGRAF RFCGP KMTCQ UGRF GL
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QM QJGEFRJW JCQQ %CA?SQC RFC GBC? MD ?L GLLGRCJW ?@PSNR QFGDR JGTCQ GL ?L
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K?RFCK?RGA?J GBC?JGX?RGML GR QSACQ RM QFMU RF?R GR BGQ?NNC?PQ UFCL UC
FM@@JC 6ICNRGA ?LB 5C?JGRW GL QK?JJ U?WQ RF?R ?PC PC?QML?@JC MP GLAMLQC
OSCLRG?J GL NP?ARGAC 7FGQ F?Q @CCL BMLC GL RUM BGCPCLR U?WQ
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K?ICQ FGQ @CR ? AMLRGLSMSQ DSLARGML MD RFC DMPCA?QR   7FGQ GQ LMR ?
NP?ARGA?J GKNCBGKCLR @CA?SQC ? AMLRGLSMSQ DSLARGML A?L AF?LEC UGRF
?LW BCEPCC MD ?@PSNRLCQQ QFMPR MD GLLGRC ,R A?L C?QGJW @C QFMULZ,
PCNPMBSAC GL  @CJMU RFC NPMMD EGTCL GL 9MTI CR ?J @ZRF?R
)MPCA?QRCP A?L @C?R ?LW AMLRGLSMSQ QRP?RCEW $LB ?Q , CVNJ?GL GL 
RFCPC ?PC AMLRGLSMSQ QRP?RCEGCQ DMP 6ICNRGA RF?R K?IC ? JMR KMLCW
SLJCQQ )MPCA?QRCPQ NPM@?@GJGRGCQ NCPDMPK UCJJ ,L N?PRGASJ?P 6ICNRGA
F?Q AMLRGLSMSQ QRP?RCEGCQ RF?R K?IC ? JMR MD KMLCW SLJCQQ )MPCA?QRCP
GQ UCJJ A?JG@P?RCB GL RFC QCLQC RF?R ?@MSR  MD RFC CTCLRQ DMP UFGAF
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QRP?RCEW DMP 6ICNRGA RF?R K?ICQ KMLCW GD )MPCA?QRCP BMCQ LMR NCPDMPK
UCJJ )MPCA?QRCP GQ QSPC RM NCPDMPK UCJJ LM K?RRCP UF?R 5C?JGRW BMCQ
7FGQ K?W QCCK QSPNPGQGLE @SR )MPCA?QRCPQ NJ?W RSPLQ MSR RM @C OSGRC
L?RSP?J 7M ES?P?LRCC A?JG@P?RGML DMP CV?KNJC FC ?JU?WQ AFMMQCQ ?
T?JSC MD  UFCPC FC F?Q @CCL D?GPJW UCJJ A?JG@P?RCB QM D?P QM RF?R
218 G. Shafer

5C?JGRW A?LLMR K?IC FGQ A?JG@P?RGML KSAF UMPQC LM K?RRCP UFCRFCP


QFC NSRQ " COS?J RM  MP ! QCC 

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A?QRCP RM K?IC RFC CV?AR T?JSC MD  QJGEFRJW GLBCRCPKGL?RC )MPCA?QRCP
?LLMSLACQ ? NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGML P?RFCP RF?L ?L CV?AR T?JSC DMP
  JC?TGLE RFC CV?AR T?JSC RM @C BCRCPKGLCB @W ? P?LBMK BP?UGLE
DPMK RFC NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGML ?DRCP 6ICNRGA ?LB 5C?JGRW K?IC RFCGP
KMTCQ ,L RFGQ A?QC )MPCA?QRCP A?L @C?R ?LW QRP?RCEW DMP 6ICNRGA CTCL
GR GD GQ LMR AMLRGLSMSQ 9MTI ?LB 6F?DCP  E?TC ? BGPCAR NPMMD MD
RFGQ @SGJBGLE ML C?PJGCP UMPI @W )MQRCP ?LB 9MFP?  ?LB MRFCPQ
?LB RFC PCQSJR DMJJMUQ C?QGJW DPMK RFC PCQSJR AMLACPLGLE AMLRGLSMSQ
QRP?RCEGCQ DMP 6ICNRGA 9MTI A

7FC GBC? MD ECRRGLE EMMB DMPCA?QRQ @W NJ?WGLE ?E?GLQR QRP?RCEGCQ DMP 6ICN
RGA RSPLQ MSR RM @C TCPW NPMBSARGTC ,R UMPIQ LMR MLJW UFCL UC EGTC NPM@
?@GJGRGCQ DMP ? QCOSCLAC MD CTCLRQ @SR ?JQM UFCL UC KCPCJW K?IC NMGLR NPC
BGARGMLQ DMP ? QCOSCLAC MD OS?LRGRGCQ QCC 9MTI CR ?J ? ?LB 9MTI
? ,RQ QSAACQQ PCOSGPCQ FMUCTCP RF?R UC QCCQ ?JJ RFC NPCACBGLE MSR
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7FC DMJJMUGLE NMGLRQ ?PC ICW RM SLBCPQR?LBGLE RFC QSAACQQ ?LB QAMNC MD
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OSCLAC MD CTCLRQ JGCQ GL RFC NPCBGARGMLQ GR K?ICQ TCPW AMLBCLRJW :C
A?L ?JQM Q?W RF?R RFC RFCMPWQ KC?LGLE GQ A?NRSPCB @W QR?RGQRGA?J RCQRQ
UFGAF PCHCAR RFC RFCMPW UFCL QMKCRFGLE RM UFGAF GR EGTCQ TCPW QK?JJ
NPM@?@GJGRW F?NNCLQ 7FCQC GBC?Q F?TC ? TCLCP?@JC FGQRMPW 6F?DCP ?LB
9MTI ! 6F?DCP 

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@CA?SQC RFC F?NNCLGLE MD ? N?PRGASJ?P CTCLR UGRF TCPW QK?JJ NPM@?@GJ
GRW GQ COSGT?JCLR RM ? @CRRGLE QRP?RCEW KSJRGNJWGLE RFC A?NGR?J GR PGQIQ
@W ? J?PEC D?ARMP 7FGQ GQ 9GJJCQ RFCMPCK , QR?RC GR KMPC NPCAGQCJW
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AMKNJCRC NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGMLQ ?PC EGTCL RM RFC A?QC UFCPC MLJW
QMKC OS?LRGRGCQ ?PC NPCBGARCB , BGQASQQ ? TCPW QGKNJC CV?KNJC GL
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Defensive Forecasting 219

 ,D RUM MP KMPC @CRRGLE QRP?RCEGCQ PGQI RFC Q?KC ?KMSLR MD KMLCW


RFCL RFCGP ?TCP?EC UFGAF ?JQM PGQIQ RF?R Q?KC ?KMSLR MD KMLCW UGJJ
KSJRGNJW GR @W ? J?PEC D?ARMP GD ?LW MD RFC QRP?RCEGCQ @CGLE ?TCP?ECB BM
QM 6M UC A?L AMK@GLC E?KCRFCMPCRGA RCQRQ @W ?TCP?EGLE! QCC  DMP
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MLC RF?R GQ OS?QGSLGTCPQ?J GL RFC QCLQC RF?R GR KSJRGNJGCQ RFC A?NGR?J
PGQICB @W ? J?PEC D?ARMP UFCLCTCP MSP NPM@?@GJGQRGA NPCBGARGMLQ D?GJ GL
? U?W RF?R GQ GKNMPR?LR RM SQ! QCC  DMP BCR?GJQ

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RFC GBC? MD ? E?KC ?E?GLQR L?RSPC ,L :?JBQ E?KCQ L?RSPC GQ ? NJ?WCP
@SR LMR ? NJ?WCP JGIC MRFCPQ 6FC BMCQ LMR NJ?W QRP?RCEGA?JJW 6FC GELMPCQ
RFC MRFCP NJ?WCPQ CGRFCP AFMMQGLE ?JJ FCP KMTCQ ?R RFC MSRQCR MP AFMMQGLE
RFCK ?R P?LBMK ,R GQ MDRCL RFMSEFR RF?R EMMB NPCBGARGML GQ NMQQG@JC GL
QNGRC MD '?UGBQ AMSLRCPCV?KNJC MLJW @CA?SQC MD RFGQ LCSRP?JGRW ML RFC N?PR
MD L?RSPC
7FC NPMRMAMJQ GL SQCB @W BCDCLQGTC DMPCA?QRGLE ?LB MRFCP ?NNJGA?RGMLQ
MD E?KCRFCMPCRGA NPM@?@GJGRW BM LMR GL AMLRP?QR PSJC MSR QRP?RCEGA NJ?W @W
5C?JGRW 7FGQ LMTCJRW K?W AMLDSQC QMKC PC?BCPQ 'M RFC QSAACQQ MD BCDCLQGTC
DMPCA?QRGLE ?LB RFC T?JGBGRW MD MRFCP PCQSJRQ GL E?KCRFCMPCRGA NPM@?@GJGRW
BCNCLB ML ?JJMUGLE L?RSPC RM NJ?W QRP?RCEGA?JJW#
1M 7FC NPMRMAMJQ DMP BCDCLQGTC DMPCA?QRGLE K?IC LM ?QQSKNRGML ?@MSR
FMU 5C?JGRW AFMMQCQ FCP KMTCQ QGKNJW @CA?SQC LM QSAF ?QQSKNRGML GQ LCCBCB
GL MPBCP RM NPMTC RF?R BCDCLQGTC DMPCA?QRGLE UMPIQ 7FC K?RFCK?RGA?J NPMNM
QGRGMLQ RF?R SLBCPJGC BCDCLQGTC DMPCA?QRGLE ?LB MRFCP ?NNJGA?RGMLQ MD E?KC
RFCMPCRGA NPM@?@GJGRW ?PC NPMNMQGRGMLQ ?@MSR UF?R NJ?WCPQ MRFCP RF?L 5C?JGRW
A?L ?AFGCTC GL RFC UMPQR A?QC 3PMNMQGRGMLQ  ?LB  DMP CV?KNJC C?AF ?QQCPR
RF?R 6ICNRGA F?Q ? QRP?RCEW RF?R ?AFGCTCQ ? ACPR?GL EM?J PCE?PBJCQQ MD FMU
)MPCA?QRCP ?LB 5C?JGRW KMTC 3PMNMQGRGMLQ  ?LB  C?AF ?QQCPR RF?R )MPC
A?QRCP F?Q ? QRP?RCEW RF?R ?AFGCTCQ ? ACPR?GL EM?J PCE?PBJCQQ MD FMU 5C?JGRW
KMTCQ
,L K?LW BMK?GLQ UFCPC BCDCLQGTC DMPCA?QRGLE ?LB MRFCP E?KCRFCMPCRGA
RCAFLGOSCQ A?L @C SQCBZGL CLEGLCCPGLE DMP CV?KNJCZLM MLC UMSJB FCQGR?RC
RM ?QQSKC RF?R 5C?JGRW BMCQ LMR KMTC QRP?RCEGA?JJW %SR RFCPC ?PC MRFCP
?NNJGA?RGMLQ CQNCAG?JJW GL @SQGLCQQ ?LB CAMLMKGAQ UFCPC RFC PC?JGRW UC NJ?W
?E?GLQR GLAJSBCQ AMKNCRGRMPQ ?LB MRFCP AMSLRCPN?PRGCQ UFM K?W GLBCCB @C
220 G. Shafer

NJ?WGLE ?E?GLQR SQ QRP?RCEGA?JJW 6CC 9MTI ?LB 6F?DCP   6F?DCP
 :S ?LB 6F?DCP  DMP CV?KNJCQ GL UFGAF ?L GLTCQRMP NJ?WQ RFC
PMJC MD 6ICNRGA UFGJC ? L?LAG?J K?PICR UFGAF BCRCPKGLCQ RFC PCRSPLQ ML FGQ
GLTCQRKCLRQ NJ?WQ RFC PMJCQ MD )MPCA?QRCP ?LB 5C?JGRW 7FC L?LAG?J K?PICR
GQ LMR ? QGLEJC NCPQML @SR RFC NPGACQ GR QCRQ ?PC GLSCLACB @W K?LW NCMNJC
UFM ?PC TCPW GLRCLR ML R?IGLE ?BT?LR?EC MD RFC GLTCQRMP

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6GLAC (KGJC %MPCJQ NPMMD MD RFC QRPMLE J?U MD J?PEC LSK@CPQ GL  K?RF
CK?RGAG?LQ F?TC SLBCPQRMMB RF?R KC?QSPC RFCMPW A?L NPMTGBC ? PGEMPMSQ
DMSLB?RGML DMP RFC AJ?QQGA?J RFCMPCKQ MD NPM@?@GJGRW 'CDCLQGTC DMPCA?QRGLE
GQ K?BC NMQQG@JC @W RFC PC?JGX?RGML RF?R E?KC RFCMPW NPMTGBCQ ?L COS?JJW
PGEMPMSQ ?LB CTCL KMPC ECLCP?J DMSLB?RGML :GRFGL RFC E?KCRFCMPCRGA
DP?KCUMPI ? AJ?QQGA?J NPM@?@GJGRW RFCMPCK @CAMKCQ ? RFCMPCK ?QQCPRGLE
RFC CVGQRCLAC MD ? @CRRGLE QRP?RCEW RF?R KSJRGNJGCQ RFC A?NGR?J GR PGQIQ @W ?
J?PEC D?ARMP SLJCQQ MSRAMKCQ Q?RGQDW ? EGTCL AMLBGRGML ,D AMKNJCRC NPM@?@GJ
GRW BGQRPG@SRGMLQ ?PC EGTCL ?LB UC ?PC ?JJMUCB RM @SW ?LW P?LBMK T?PG?@JC
DMP GRQ CVNCARCB T?JSC RFC E?KCRFCMPCRGA RFCMPCKQ A?L @C RFMSEFR MD ?Q
? U?W MD PCQR?RGLE RFC AMPPCQNMLBGLE KC?QSPCRFCMPCRGA RFCMPCKQ %SR RFC
E?KCRFCMPCRGA RFCMPCKQ ?JQM ?NNJW UFCL MLJW QMKC T?PG?@JCQ ?PC NPGACB
?LB MCPCB DMP Q?JC
7FC E?KCRFCMPCRGA DP?KCUMPI F?Q GRQ PMMRQ GL UMPI @W -C?L 9GJJC GL
RFC Q 9GJJC  9GJJC UMPICB SLBCP RFC ?QQSKNRGML RF?R AMKNJCRC
NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGMLQ ?PC EGTCL ?LB DMP RFC KMQR N?PR FC AMLQGBCPCB MLJW
RFC A?QC UFCPC UC QCCI @CRRGLE QRP?RCEGCQ RF?R KSJRGNJW RFC A?NGR?J PGQICB
@W ?L GLLGRC D?ARMP ?AFGCTGLE RFGQ AMPPCQNMLBQ RM RFC F?NNCLGLE MD ?L
CTCLR MD XCPM NPM@?@GJGRW P?RFCP RF?L KCPCJW RFC F?NNCLGLE MD ?L CTCLR MD
QK?JJ NPM@?@GJGRW 0MPCMTCP FC QNCJJCB MSR FGQ PC?QMLGLE DSJJW MLJW DMP RFC
A?QC UFCPC MSRAMKCQ ?PC @GL?PW %SR CVNJ?GLCB DSJJW RFC GBC? MD NPMTGLE
RFCMPCKQ @W AMLQRPSARGLE @CRRGLE QRP?RCEGCQ
,L  , PCTGCU 9GJJCQ RFCMPCK UFGAF CQR?@JGQFCQ RFC COSGT?JCLAC @C
RUCCL RFC F?NNCLGLE MD ?L CTCLR MD QK?JJ NPM@?@GJGRW ?LB RFC QSAACQQ MD ?
@CRRGLE QRP?RCEW ,L  , PCTGCU FMU 9GJJC RFMSEFR ?@MSR K?PRGLE?JCQ GL
RFC @GL?PW NPM@?@GJGRW NPMRMAMJ ,L  , BGQASQQ ? K?PRGLE?JC RF?R 9GJJC
SQCB RM NPMTC RFC QRPMLE J?U MD J?PEC LSK@CPQ GL RFC QNCAG?J A?QC MD FGQ
@GL?PW NPMRMAMJ GL UFGAF QSAACQQGTC CTCLRQ ?PC GLBCNCLBCLR ?LB ?JJ F?TC RFC
Q?KC NPM@?@GJGRW 
, RFCL RSPL RM RFC ECLCP?JGX?RGML RM RFC A?QC UFCPC LM HMGLR NPM@?@GJGRW
BGQRPG@SRGML DMP UF?R UC K?W M@QCPTC GQ EGTCL ,L  , PCRSPL RM RFC
NPM@?@GJGRW DMPCA?QRGLE NPMRMAMJ UC AMLQGBCPCB GL  , BGQASQQ RFC UC?I
Defensive Forecasting 221

?LB QRPMLE J?U MD J?PEC LSK@CPQ DMP RFGQ NPMRMAMJ ?LB ?Q ?L GJJSQRP?RGML
, QICRAF ? TCPW QGKNJC NPMMD MD RFC UC?I J?U ,L  , BGQASQQ ? NPMRMAMJ
GL UFGAF NPCBGARGMLQ  MD OS?LRGRGCQ " ?PC GLRCPNPCRCB ?Q NPGACQ ?R UFGAF
6ICNRGA A?L @SW MP QCJJ RFC "  ?LB , CVNJ?GL FMU UC A?L M@R?GL J?UQ MD J?PEC
LSK@CPQ CTCL GL RFGQ A?QC

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9GJJC AMLQGBCPCB MLJW RFC GLLGR?PW A?QC UFCPC RFC E?KC AMLRGLSCQ DMP
?L GLLGRC LSK@CP MD PMSLBQ ?LB 6ICNRGA RPGCQ RM @CAMKC GLLGRCJW PGAF
@CA?SQC FC AMLACGTCB FGQ UMPI ?Q ? APGRGOSC MD 5GAF?PB TML 0GQCQQ LMRGML

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MLJW GL RFC AMLRCVR MD ?L GLLGRC QCOSCLAC MD CTCLRQ UFMQC JGKGRGLE DPCOSCLAW
MD MAASPPCLAC GQ  ?LB UFGAF M@CWQ RFC DSPRFCP AMLBGRGML RF?R ?LW PC?QML?@JC
PSJC DMP QCJCARGLE ? QS@QCOSCLAC UGJJ NPMBSAC MLC UGRF RFC Q?KC JGKGRGLE
DPCOSCLAW 7FGQ J?RRCP AMLBGRGML TML 0GQCQ RFMSEFR UMSJB ICCN ? E?K@JCP
DPMK ECRRGLE PGAF @W @CRRGLE ML QMKC MD RFC CTCLRQ ?LB LMR MRFCPQ 9GJJC
QFMUCB @W CV?KNJC RF?R TML 0GQCQQ AMLBGRGML GQ GL?BCOS?RC GL?QKSAF ?Q
GR BMCQ LMR PSJC MSR RFC E?K@JCPQ ECRRGLE PGAF @W T?PWGLE FGQ @CR 9GJJC RFCL
QFMUCB RF?R PSJGLE MSR ?L ?P@GRP?PW QRP?RCEWQ K?IGLE ? E?K@JCP GLLGRCJW
PGAF CTCL GD RF?R QRP?RCEW BMCQ T?PW FMU KSAF ?LB ML UF?R QGBC RM @CR GQ
HSQR RFC Q?KC ?Q PSJGLE MSR RFC F?NNCLGLE MD ?L ?P@GRP?PW CTCLR MD NPM@?@GJGRW
XCPM
8LDMPRSL?RCJW 9GJJCQ UMPI U?Q J?PECJW MTCPJMMICB GL ECLCP?J @CA?SQC MD
RFC CAJGNQC MD RFC )PCLAF QAFMMJ MD NPM@?@GJGRW ?DRCP :MPJB :?P ,, ?LB GL
N?PRGASJ?P @CA?SQC MD RFC QSAACQQ MD -MQCNF / 'MM@Q PCDMPKSJ?RGML MD 9GJJCQ
LMRGML MD ? K?PRGLE?JC GL KC?QSPCRFCMPCRGA RCPKQ 'MM@  'GQASQQGMLQ
MD TML 0GQCQQ DPCOSCLRGQK QRGJJ SQS?JJW MTCPJMMI 9GJJCQ CKCLB?RGML MD GR ?LB
9GJJCQ RFCMPCK GQ QRGJJ LMR UCJJ ILMUL
,L MPBCP RM QR?RC 9GJJCQ RFCMPCK AMLQGBCP ? QCOSCLAC        MD @G
L?PW P?LBMK T?PG?@JCQ UGRF ? HMGLR NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGML 3 6SNNMQC
DMP QGKNJGAGRW RF?R 3 ?QQGELQ CTCPW LGRC QCOSCLAC "      " MD Q ?LB Q
NMQGRGTC NPM@?@GJGRW QM RF?R GRQ AMLBGRGML?J NPM@?@GJGRGCQ DMP  EGTCL T?J
SCQ MD RFC NPCACBGLE T?PG?@JCQ ?PC ?JU?WQ SL?K@GESMSQJW BCLCB )MJJMUGLE
9GJJC AMLQGBCP ? E?K@JCP UFM @CEGLQ UGRF  ?LB GQ ?JJMUCB RM @CR ?Q FC
NJC?QCQ ML C?AF PMSLB NPMTGBCB RF?R FC LCTCP PGQIQ KMPC RF?L FC F?Q 7FC
AMLBGRGML RF?R FC LCTCP PGQIQ KMPC RF?L FC F?Q GQ LCCBCB RM ES?P?LRCC RF?R
RFC GLGRG?J A?NGR?J MD  PCNPCQCLRQ RFC RMR?J A?NGR?J FC PGQIQ ,D FC UCPC ?J
JMUCB RM @MPPMU GL MPBCP RM K?IC J?PECP @CRQ FC UMSJB @C PGQIGLE KMPC
:C A?L DMPK?JGXC RFGQ UGRF RFC DMJJMUGLE NPMRMAMJ UFCPC @CRRGLE ML  GQ
222 G. Shafer

PCNPCQCLRCB ?Q @SWGLE QMKC LSK@CP  NMQQG@JW XCPM MP LCE?RGTC MD RGAICRQ


RF?R AMQR 3 "  " "       " "  ?LB N?W  

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7FC QCOSCLAC        GQ 6ICNRGAQ A?NGR?J NPMACQQ $JMLE UGRF ?JJ RFC


MRFCP NPMRMAMJQ AMLQGBCPCB GL RFGQ ?PRGAJC RFGQ GQ ? NCPDCARGLDMPK?RGML QC
OSCLRG?J NPMRMAMJ! KMTCQ ?PC K?BC GL RFC MPBCP JGQRCB ?LB C?AF NJ?WCP QCCQ
RFC MRFCP NJ?WCPQ KMTCQ ?Q RFCW ?PC K?BC
1MRGAC RFC JGKGRCB PMJC NJ?WCB @W RFC NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGML 3 ,RQ MLJW
PMJC GQ RM EGTCQ NPGACQ ?R UFGAF 6ICNRGA A?L @SW RGAICRQ :C A?L RFGLI MD GR
?Q ? QRP?RCEW DMP )MPCA?QRCP UFM BMCQ LMR ?NNC?P GL RFC E?KC @CA?SQC FGQ
QRP?RCEW GQ VCB 5C?JGRW GQ LMR PCOSGPCB RM QCJCAR  Q T?JSC " P?LBMKJW
?AAMPBGLE RM RFC AMLBGRGML?J NPM@?@GJGRW 3 "  " "       "
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"  "      @SR DMP QGKNJGAGRW JCR SQ AMLQGBCP MLJW 3PMRMAMJ  UFCPC RFC
MSRAMKCQ ?PC @GL?PW 7FC RFCMPCK Q?WQ RF?R 6ICNRGAQ ECRRGLE GLLGRCJW PGAF
GL RFGQ NPMRMAMJ GQ COSGT?JCLR RM ?L CTCLR MD XCPM NPM@?@GJGRW F?NNCLGLE GL
RFC DMJJMUGLE QCLQC

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Defensive Forecasting 223

:C A?L QSKK?PGXC RFCQC RUM QR?RCKCLRQ @W Q?WGLE RF?R 6ICNRGAQ @CGLE ?@JC
RM KSJRGNJW FGQ A?NGR?J @W ?L GLLGRC D?ARMP GQ COSGT?JCLR RM RFC F?NNCLGLE
MD ?L CTCLR UGRF NPM@?@GJGRW XCPM

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UC AMLQGBCP QK?JJ NPM@?@GJGRGCQ P?RFCP RF?L XCPM NPM@?@GJGRGCQ ,L RFGQ A?QC
UC A?L SQC RFC DMJJMUGLE LGR?PW TCPQGML MD 9GJJCQ RFCMPCK UFGAF GQ NPMTCL
GL 6F?DCP ?LB 9MTI  AF?NRCP 
 :FCL 6ICNRGA DMJJMUQ ? QRP?RCEW RF?R EGTCQ  ?Q ? DSLARGML MD
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GR GQ LMU QMKCRGKCQ A?JJCB 44'8 .3*6:&1.9>
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F?Q ? QRP?RCEW RF?R ES?P?LRCCQ

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RGNJW FGQ A?NGR?J @W ? D?ARMP MD 
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MD ?L CTCLR UGRF NPM@?@GJGRW  MP JCQQ

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MLJW DMP ? VCB LSK@CP MD PMSLBQ  GLQRC?B MD @CGLE AMLRGLSCB GLBCLGRCJW
RFCL RFC NPCACBGLE QR?RCKCLRQ QGKNJGDW RM RFC DMJJMUGLE
 :FCL 6ICNRGA DMJJMUQ ? QRP?RCEW RF?R EGTCQ  ?Q ? DSLARGML MD
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GQ NMQGRGTC DMP CTCPW QCOSCLAC "      " MD Q ?LB  3 " "       "
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$ QRP?RCEW DMP 6ICNRGA GL 3PMRMAMJ  GQ ? PSJC RF?R QNCAGCQ DMP C?AF 
?LB C?AF NMQQG@JC QCOSCLAC MD NPGMP KMTCQ "      " @W 5C?JGRW ? KMTC 
DMP 6ICNRGA :FCL QSAF ? QRP?RCEW GQ VCB ?LB GQ EGTCL 6ICNRGAQ A?NGR?J
 @CAMKCQ ? DSLARGML MD 5C?JGRWQ KMTCQ "      "  9GJJC U?Q RFC PQR RM
A?JJ RFC QCOSCLAC MD DSLARGMLQ        ? 2&79.3,&1*
,L 3PMRMAMJ  ILMUGLE RFC A?NGR?J NPMACQQ        NPMBSACB @W ?
QRP?RCEW DMP 6ICNRGA GQ COSGT?JCLR RM ILMUGLE RFC QRP?RCEW ?LB RFC GLGRG?J
A?NGR?J  ;MS A?L LB        DPMK ?LB RFC QRP?RCEW ?LB WMS A?L
LB ?LB RFC QRP?RCEW DPMK         7FGQ COSGT?JCLAC U?Q 9GJJCQ HSQ
RGA?RGML DMP A?JJGLE ? A?NGR?J NPMACQQ ? K?PRGLE?JC! @CDMPC FGQ UMPI =K?P
RGLE?JC U?Q ? L?KC DMP ? E?K@JCPQ QRP?RCEW LMR ? L?KC DMP FGQ A?NGR?J
NPMACQQ 7FC L?KC QRSAI! LMU UC A?JJ A?NGR?J NPMACQQCQ K?PRGLE?JCQ CTCL GL
NPMRMAMJQ UFCPC RFC QRP?RCEW A?LLMR @C PCAMTCPCB DPMK RFCK
/CR SQ A?JJ ? K?PRGLE?JC        ? 8(47.3, 2&79.3,&1* GD  "  ?LB 
GQ ?JU?WQ LMLLCE?RGTCZGC  "      "    DMP ?JJ  ?LB ?JJ "      " 
/CR SQ A?JJ ? QRP?RCEW DMP 6ICNRGA RF?R NPMBSACQ ? QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JC UFCL
GR QR?PRQ UGRF SLGR A?NGR?J ? 8(47.3, 897&9*,> :FCL 6ICNRGA NJ?WQ ? QAMPGLE
QRP?RCEW QR?PRGLE UGRF  "  FC A?L @C QSPC RF?R    DMP ?JJ  LM K?RRCP
FMU 5C?JGRW NJ?WQ +C K?W @C PGQIGLE RFC CLRGPC GLGRG?J SLGR MD A?NGR?J @SR
FC GQ LMR NSRRGLE ?LW MRFCP A?NGR?JZFGQ MUL MP ?LWMLC CJQCQZ?R PGQI
2SP @?QGA NPGLAGNJC DMP PCJ?RGLE 3PMRMAMJ  ?LB GRQ NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGML
3 RM RFC CKNGPGA?J UMPJB GQ RM NPCBGARQ RF?R ? QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JC UGJJ @C
@MSLBCB 7FGQ NPCBGARGML A?L @C SQCB GL RUM U?WQ
,! %.%*) 7FC NPCBGARGML RF?R ? N?PRGASJ?P QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JC  GQ
@MSLBCB A?L GKNJW MRFCP NPCBGARGMLQ RF?R ?PC GLRCPCQRGLE GL RFCGP MUL
Defensive Forecasting 225

PGEFR ,R GQ C?QW RM EGTC CV?KNJCQ ,L  UC UGJJ JMMI ?R ? QAMPGLE


K?PRGLE?JC UFMQC @CGLE @MSLBCB ?Q NPCBGARCB UGRF NPM@?@GJGRW MLC
@W  GKNJGCQ RFC QRPMLE J?U MD J?PEC LSK@CPQ ,L  UC UGJJ JMMI
?R ? QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JC UFMQC @CGLE @MSLBCB @W 
 ?Q NPCBGARCB
UGRF NPM@?@GJGRW  @W  GKNJGCQ RFC UC?I J?U MD J?PEC LSK@CPQ
!-.%)# 7FC ?ARS?J T?JSCQ MD ? QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JC RCQR RFC T?JGBGRW MD RFC
NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGML 3 7FC J?PECP RFCQC =QAMPCQ ?PC RFC KMPC
QRPMLEJW 3 GQ PCDSRCB
9GJJC SQCB QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JCQ GL @MRF U?WQ
(OS?RGML  RFC PSJC DMP SNB?RGLE RFC A?NGR?J GL 3PMRMAMJ  GKNJGCQ
RF?R  GQ RFC CVNCARCB T?JSC ?R RGKC   MD RFC DSRSPC T?JSC MD 

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UFCPC 4 GQ RFC DSLARGML ML LGRC QRPGLEQ MD Q ?LB Q BCLCB @W

4"      "  "  "      " 3"      " 

(OS?RGML  GQ LCACQQ?PW ?LB QSAGCLR DMP ? LMLLCE?RGTC DSLARGML 4 ML


LGRC QRPGLEQ MD Q ?LB Q RM BCLC ? NPM@?@GJGRW KC?QSPC ML    6M ?
LMLLCE?RGTC K?PRGLE?JC UGRF PCQNCAR RM 3 GQ RFC Q?KC RFGLE ?Q RFC P?RGM MD ?
NPM@?@GJGRW KC?QSPC 4 RM 3ZGC ? JGICJGFMMB P?RGM UGRF 3 ?Q BCLMKGL?RMP
'MM@ GKNMPRCB 9GJJCQ LMRGML MD ? K?PRGLE?JC GLRM KC?QSPCRFCMPCRGA
NPM@?@GJGRW UFCPC RFC E?K@JGLE NGARSPC GQ LMR K?BC CVNJGAGR @W R?IGLE
(OS?RGML  ?Q RFC BCLGRGML MD ? K?PRGLE?JC *?KCRFCMPCRGA NPM@?@GJGRW
EMCQ GL ? BGCPCLR BGPCARGML ,R SQCQ 9GJJCQ BCLGRGML MD ? K?PRGLE?JC GL
KMPC ECLCP?J DMPCA?QRGLE E?KCQ UFCPC RFC DMPCA?QRQ ?PC EGTCL @W ? NJ?WCP
GL RFC E?KC LMR @W ? NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGML 3 DMP 5C?JGRWQ KMTCQ ,L
RFCQC E?KCQ K?PRGLE?JCQ ?PC LMR JGICJGFMMB P?RGMQ 7FCW ?PC QGKNJW A?NGR?J
NPMACQQCQ DMP 6ICNRGA
2LC TCPW GKNMPR?LR NPMNCPRW MD K?PRGLE?JCQ RF?R 9GJJC SQCB UFGAF BMCQ
A?PPW MTCP RM RFC KMPC ECLCP?J E?KCQ QRSBGCB GL E?KCRFCMPCRGA NPM@?@GJGRW
GQ RFGQ ?L ?TCP?EC MD QAMPGLE QRP?RCEGCQ NPMBSACQ RFC Q?KC ?TCP?EC MD RFC
226 G. Shafer

QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JCQ ,L MPBCP RM ?TMGB ?LW AMLDSQGML JCR KC QNCJJ MSR UF?R
RFGQ KC?LQ GL RFC A?QC UFCPC UC ?PC R?IGLE ? QGKNJC ?TCP?EC MD RUM QRP?RCEGCQ
?LB ?JQM GL RFC ECLCP?J A?QC UFCPC UC ?PC ?TCP?EGLE ? AJ?QQ MD QRP?RCEGCQ
%(+'!-. -! 6SNNMQC RFC QAMPGLE QRP?RCEGCQ  ?LB  PCAMKKCLB
KMTCQ  "      "  ?LB  "      "  PCQNCARGTCJW ML RFC RF
PMSLB MD RFC E?KC 7FC ?TCP?EC MD  ?LB  ZA?JJ GR ZPCAMKKCLBQ
RFC KMTC
  
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ML RFC RF PMSLB MD RFC E?KC ,D UC UPGRC     ?LB  DMP RFC
AMPPCQNMLBGLE QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JCQ RFCL
  
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MTCP ? QCR  :C K?W ?TCP?EC RFCQC QRP?RCEGCQ UGRF PCQNCAR RM ? NPM@
?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGML  ML  M@R?GLGLE ? QRP?RCEW UGRF KMTCQ

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NPMTGBCB MLJW RF?R RFGQ GLRCEP?J ?JU?WQ AMLTCPECQ 7FC AMPPCQNMLBGLE


QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JCQ RFCL ?TCP?EC GL RFC Q?KC U?W

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7FCQC ?QQCPRGMLQ ?PC RPSC @CA?SQC RFC GLAPCKCLR   GQ ?JU?WQ JGLC?P GL
6ICNRGAQ KMTC   7FGQ JGLC?PGRW GQ ? DC?RSPC MD ?JJ RFC NPMRMAMJQ AMLQGBCPCB
GL 6F?DCP ?LB 9MTI 

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9GJJC QRSBGCB QMKC QRP?RCEGCQ DMP 6ICNRGA GL RFC QNCAG?J A?QC MD RFC NPCACB
GLE NPMRMAMJ GL UFGAF 3 "  " "       " "  GQ ?JU?WQ COS?J
RM  ,L MPBCP RM EGTC RFC PC?BCP ? EJGKNQC MD 9GJJCQ KCRFMBQ , UGJJ LMU
PCTGCU RFC QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JC FC SQCB RM NPMTC RFC QRPMLE J?U MD J?PEC LSK
@CPQ DMP RFGQ QNCAG?J A?QC 6ICNRGA A?L @CAMKC GLLGRCJW PGAF SLJCQQ 5C?JGRW
K?ICQ RFC PCJ?RGTC DPCOSCLAW MD Q AMLTCPEC RM 
Defensive Forecasting 227

8LBCP RFC ?QQSKNRGML RF?R 3 "  " "       " "  GQ
?JU?WQ COS?J RM  MSP NPMRMAMJ JMMIQ JGIC RFGQ

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%CPLMSJJG RPG?JQ QSAACQQGTC CTCLRQ RF?R ?PC GLBCNCLBCLR ?LB ?JJ F?TC
RFC Q?KC NPM@?@GJGRW
7FC QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JC 9GJJC SQCB RM NPMTC RFC QRPMLE J?U MD J?PEC LSK
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QCC 9GJJC  N ! 9GJJC  ?LB 5M@@GLQ  7M AMLPK RF?R 
GQ ? QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JC GR QSACQ RM LMRGAC RF?R GR GQ ? JGICJGFMMB P?RGM UGRF
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BGQRPG@SRGMLQ SLBCP UFGAF RFC CTCLRQ " "  ?PC GLBCNCLBCLR ?LB ?JJ F?TC ?
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228 G. Shafer

&!.$ *" ,**" %CA?SQC  GQ ? QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JC 9GJJCQ RFCMPCK


(OS?RGML  Q?WQ RF?R UGRF NPM@?@GJGRW MLC RFCPC GQ ? AMLQR?LR QSAF
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UFCL RFC PCJ?RGTC DPCOSCLAW GQ KMPC RF?L   UFCL RFC PCJ?RGTC DPCOSCLAW
GQ JCQQ RF?L  6M UFCLCTCP RFC PCJ?RGTC DPCOSCLAW BGTCPECQ DPMK  5C?JGRW
KSQR KMTC GR @?AI RMU?PBQ  RM ICCN 6ICNRGA DPMK GLAPC?QGLE FGQ A?NGR?J
7FC P?RC MD AMLTCPECLAC MD 
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9GJJC  8QGLE MRFCP QAMPGLE K?PRGLE?JCQ M@R?GLCB @W ?TCP?EGLE

 
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?PMSLB  P?RFCP RF?L RFC SLGDMPK BGQRPG@SRGML 9GJJC ?JQM BCPGTCB RFC D?QRCP
AMLTCPECLAC ?QQCPRCB @W RFC J?U MD RFC GRCP?RCB JME?PGRFK 6F?DCP ?LB 9MTI
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:C A?L ?JQM SQC K?PRGLE?JC KCRFMBQ RM NPMTC MRFCP AJ?QQGA?J RFCMPCKQ
GLAJSBGLE RFC UC?I J?U MD J?PEC LSK@CPQ 6F?DCP ?LB 9MTI  AF?NRCP 
?LB RFC ACLRP?J JGKGR RFCMPCK 6F?DCP ?LB 9MTI  AF?NRCP  5?RFCP
RF?L NSPQSC RFGQ N?RF FCPC , UGJJ LMU QRCN MSRQGBC AJ?QQGA?J NPM@?@GJGRW
RFCMPW GLRM KMPC ECLCP?J NPMRMAMJQ JGIC RFC NPM@?@GJGRW DMPCA?QRGLE NPMRMAMJ
MD  ,L RFCQC NPMRMAMJQ K?PRGLE?JC KCRFMBQ ?JJMU SQ RM NPMTC RFCMPCKQ
?L?JMEMSQ RM RFC AJ?QQGA?J RFCMPCKQ @SR UC KSQR CVNPCQQ RFCK BGPCARJW
GL E?KCRFCMPCRGA RCPKQ ,LQRC?B MD Q?WGLE RF?R QMKCRFGLE F?NNCLQ UGRF
NPM@?@GJGRW MLC UC Q?W RF?R GD GR BMCQ LMR F?NNCL 6ICNRGA UGJJ KSJRGNJW
RFC A?NGR?J FC PGQIQ @W ?L GLLGRC D?ARMP ,LQRC?B MD Q?WGLE RF?R QMKCRFGLE
F?NNCLQ UGRF RFC FGEF NPM@?@GJGRW   UC Q?W RF?R GD GR BMCQ LMR F?NNCL
6ICNRGA UGJJ KSJRGNJW RFC A?NGR?J FC PGQIQ @W RFC J?PEC D?ARMP 


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$Q ? PQR QRCN MSRQGBC AJ?QQGA?J NPM@?@GJGRW JCR SQ PCRSPL RM RFC NPMRMAMJ
UC AMLQGBCPCB GL  GL UFGAF NPM@?@GJGRW DMPCA?QRQ ?PC K?BC @W ? NJ?WCP
)MPCA?QRCP P?RFCP RF?L @W ? NPM@?@GJGRW BGQRPG@SRGML 3 )MP RFC Q?IC MD
Defensive Forecasting 229

T?PGCRW JCR SQ AMLQGBCP RFC UC?I J?U MD J?PEC LSK@CPQ P?RFCP RF?L RFC QRPMLE
J?U $AAMPBGLEJW , LMU ?QQSKC RF?R RFC E?KC F?Q ? VCB LGRC FMPGXML GR
CLBQ ?DRCP ? J?PEC @SR LGRC LSK@CP MD PMSLBQ  

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QSKK?PGXC RFGQ UMPI FCPC @SR , QFMSJB KCLRGML RF?R NPM@?@GJGRGCQ NPMBSACB
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NPGK?PGJW @CA?SQC GR SQCQ RFC E?KCRFCMPCRGA DP?KCUMPI ?LB A?L RFCPCDMPC
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UMPI K?W @C MD JGKGRCB GKNMPR?LAC GL RFC @GL?PW A?QC UFCPC A?JG@P?RGML
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NPMTGBCB RF?R C?AF KMTC NPCQAPG@CB @W RFC QRP?RCEW T?PGCQ AMLRGLSMSQJW UGRF
PCQNCAR RM )MPCA?QRCPQ NPCTGMSQ KMTC
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7FGQ QS@QCARGML DMJJMUQ AJMQCJW RFC KMPC ECLCP?J CVNMQGRGML GL 9J?BGKGP


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RM UFGAF FC EGTCQ NPM@?@GJGRGCQ LC?P  RM F?NNCL ,D RFGQ GQ RPSC LMR MLJW
DMP  @SR ?JQM DMP ?JJ MRFCP NPM@?@GJGRW T?JSCQ RFCL UC Q?W RFC DMPCA?QRCP
GQ <*11 (&1.'7&9*) +CPC ?PC RUM U?WQ RM ?NNJW RFGQ QMKCUF?R DSXXW AMLACNR
RM RFC NPM@?@GJGRGCQ        ?LB MSRAMKCQ "      " 
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RFMQC UC AMLQGBCP LC?P  ?LB
RFMQC UC AMLQGBCP LMR LC?P :PGRC    DMP RFC LSK@CP GL RFC
EPMSN UC AMLQGBCP LC?P  'GTGBC RFGQ EPMSN DSPRFCP GLRM RFMQC DMP
UFGAF
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  " DMP RFC LSK@CP GL RFC J?RRCP EPMSN 7FSQ RFC DP?ARGML MD
Q ML RFMQC PMSLBQ UFCPC  GQ LC?P  GQ

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:C Q?W RFC DMPCA?QRQ ?PC UCJJ A?JG@P?RCB ?R  GD  GQ ?NNPMVGK?RCJW


COS?J RM  :C Q?W RFC DMPCA?QRQ ?PC UCJJ A?JG@P?RCB MTCP?JJ GD RFCW ?PC
UCJJ A?JG@P?RCB ?R  DMP CTCPW  DMP UFGAF RFC BCLMKGL?RMP MD  RFC
LSK@CP MD  LC?P  GQ J?PEC
 $JRCPL?RGTCJW GLQRC?B MD BGTGBGLE RFC  QF?PNJW GLRM RFMQC UC AMLQGBCP
LC?P  ?LB RFMQC UC AMLQGBCP LMR LC?P UC A?L GLRPMBSAC ? AMLRGLSMSQ
KC?QSPC    MD QGKGJ?PGRW ? DSLARGML QSAF ?Q RFC &:88.&3 0*73*1

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UGRF   UFGAF R?ICQ RFC T?JSC  UFCL  GQ CV?ARJW COS?J RM  ?
T?JSC AJMQC RM  UFCL  GQ LC?P  ?LB ? T?JSC AJMQC RM  UFCL  GQ
D?P DPMK  7FCL UC Q?W RFC DMPCA?QRQ ?PC UCJJ A?JG@P?RCB GD

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238 G. Shafer

DMP CTCPW  DMP UFGAF RFC BCLMKGL?RMP GQ J?PEC

7FC QCAMLB ?NNPM?AF K?IGLE RFC AJMQCLCQQ MD  ?LB  AMLRGLSMSQ RQ FCPC
@CA?SQC 6ICNRGA A?L CLDMPAC  SQGLE ? DMPCA?QRAMLRGLSMSQ QRP?RCEW
5CA?JJ RF?R ? 0*73*1 ML ? QCR ML  GQ ? DSLARGML    RF?R Q?RGQCQ
RUM AMLBGRGMLQ

 ,R GQ QWKKCRPGA    "    DMP ?JJ   


 
 ,R GQ NMQGRGTC BCLGRC     #  #    DMP ?JJ PC?J LSK
@CPQ        ?LB ?JJ CJCKCLRQ #      # MD 

7FC *?SQQG?L ICPLCJ  GQ ? ICPLCJ ML < > GL RFGQ QCLQC ,R ?JQM Q?RGQCQ
       DMP ?JJ    $LB ?Q , F?TC ?JPC?BW LMRCB    GQ
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DPMK  2SP PC?QMLGLE GL RFGQ QCARGML UMPIQ UFCL  GQ ?LW ICPLCJ ML < >
Q?RGQDWGLE RFCQC AMLBGRGMLQ 
7FC EM?J RF?R  FMJB DMP ?JJ  DMP UFGAF     GQ J?PEC GQ
DSXXW ML RUM AMSLRQ =  GQ DSXXW ?LB =J?PEC GQ DSXXW %SR PC?QML?@JC
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=J?PEC  GKNJGCQ RF?R  FMJBQ DMP ?JJ  DMP UFGAF     GQ
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UFCL     GQ J?PEC 6M  FMJBGLE UFCL     GQ J?PEC
GQ COSGT?JCLR RM

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FMJBGLE UFCL     GQ J?PEC ,D UC R?IC     @CGLE J?PEC
RM KC?L RF?R



    


RFCL RFGQ AMLBGRGML RMECRFCP UGRF  GKNJGCQ

 
  
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UFGAF GQ ? PC?QML?@JC GLRCPNPCR?RGML MD 

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QRP?RCEW DMP )MPCA?QRCP RF?R ES?P?LRCCQ RFC EM?J  GL 3PMRMAMJ  JCR SQ
GK?EGLC RF?R 6ICNRGA GQ ?JJMUCB RM CLRCP RFC E?KC ?LB @CR ?Q GL 3PMRMAMJ 
2SP QRP?RCEW DMP )MPCA?QRCP UGJJ @C RM NJ?W ?E?GLQR RFC DMJJMUGLE DMPCA?QR
AMLRGLSMSQ QRP?RCEW DMP 6ICNRGA

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:C A?JJ RFGQ QRP?RCEW DMP 6ICNRGA RFC . @CRRGLE QRP?RCEW @CA?SQC GR GQ
KMBCJCB ML RFC K?PRGLE?JC RF?R GQ SQCB GL .MJKMEMPMT  RM NPMTC RFC
UC?I J?U MD J?PEC LSK@CPQ QCC 
$AAMPBGLE RM RFC NPMMD MD 3PMNMQGRGML  NJ?WGLE ?E?GLQR RFC . @CRRGLE
QRP?RCEW KC?LQ SQGLE RFC DMJJMUGLE ?JEMPGRFK RM AFMMQC  DMP  "       
240 G. Shafer

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 ,D RFC COS?RGML


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F?Q ?R JC?QR MLC QMJSRGML  GL RFC GLRCPT?J < > QCR  COS?J RM QSAF ?
QMJSRGML

 ,D    "    DMP ?JJ  < > QCR  COS?J RM 

 ,D    "    DMP ?JJ  < > QCR  COS?J RM 

$3 .$! "*,!-.%)# '#*,%.$( 1*,&- :FW BMCQ RFC . DMPCA?QRGLE
?JEMPGRFK UMPI# , UGJJ EGTC ? DMPK?J NPMMD RF?R GR UMPIQ ?LB RFCL BGQASQQ
GRQ QSAACQQ @PGCW DPMK ?L GLRSGRGTC TGCUNMGLR

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<.11 -41) 34 2&99*7 -4< *&1.9> (-448*8 "      " 

744+ 0CPACPQ RFCMPCK Q?WQ RF?R DMP ?LW ICPLCJ  ML < > RFCPC GQ ?
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DMP ?JJ   GL < > UFCPC  GQ RFC BMR NPMBSAR GL  0CPACP ! 6AF[
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3PMNMQGRGML  Q?WQ RF?R UFCL )MPCA?QRCP NJ?WQ RFC . DMPCA?QRGLE ?JEMPGRFK
Defensive Forecasting 241

?E?GLQR RFGQ QRP?RCEW 6ICNRGAQ A?NGR?J BMCQ LMR GLAPC?QC 6M



 

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QMJSRGML GQ )MPCA?QRCPQ AFMGAC DMP   %CA?SQC    GQ QK?JJ UFCL  ?LB
242 G. Shafer

 ?PC D?P ?N?PR RFC K?GL AMLRPG@SRGML RM RFC QSK AMKCQ DPMK RCPKQ DMP
UFGAF  GQ AJMQC RM  6M RFC COS?RGML GQ RCJJGLE SQ RM JMMI DMP ? T?JSC MD
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QGLEJC PMSLB MD RFC DMPCA?QRGLE E?KC $ QR?RGQRGA?J RCQR MD A?JG@P?RGML QSAF ?Q
RFC . @CRRGLE QRP?RCEW A?L PCHCAR A?JG@P?RGML KSJRGNJW GRQ GLGRG?J A?NGR?J
@W ? J?PEC D?ARMP MLJW ?Q ? PCQSJR MD ? RPCLB GLTMJTGLE K?LW RPG?JQ 7M PCHCAR
A?JG@P?RGML ?R  UC KSQR QCC K?LW PMSLBQ UGRF  LC?P  ?LB RFC PCJ?RGTC
DPCOSCLAW MD Q DMP RFCQC  KSQR BGTCPEC QS@QR?LRG?JJW DPMK  7FC .
DMPKSJ?RGML ?TMGBQ ?LW QSAF BGTCPECLAC @W ?JU?WQ NSRRGLE RFC LCVR  ?R
T?JSCQ MD  UFCPC LM RPCLB GQ CKCPEGLEZUFCPC ML RFC AMLRP?PW A?JG@P?RGML
GQ CVACJJCLR QM D?P
7FGQ GQ MLJW L?RSP?J ,L ECLCP?J UC ?TMGB AFMGACQ RF?R F?TC UMPICB MSR
NMMPJW GL RFC N?QR 7FC GLRCPCQRGLE NMGLR FCPC GQ RF?R RFGQ GQ QSAGCLR RM
?TMGB PCHCARGML @W ? QR?RGQRGA?J RCQR )MPCA?QRCP A?L K?IC QSPC FC GQ UCJJ
A?JG@P?RCB @W ?ARGLE ?Q GD RFC DSRSPC UGJJ @C JGIC RFC N?QR PCE?PBJCQQ MD UF?R
5C?JGRW BMCQ ML C?AF PMSLB

*,! .* -3 &?JG@P?RGML GQ MLJW MLC NPM@?@GJGQRGA NPMNCPRW MD RFC DMPCA?QRQ


       GL 3PMRMAMJ  RF?R UC KGEFR BCK?LB GL MPBCP RM AMSLR )MPCA?QRCP
?Q ? EMMB NPM@?@GJGRW DMPCA?QRCP )MP CV?KNJC UC KGEFR BCK?LB RF?R RFC
PCJ?RGTC DPCOSCLAW MD Q ML PMSLBQ DMP UFGAF  GQ AJMQC RM  AMLTCPEC RM  ?R
RFC P?RC BCQAPG@CB @W RFC J?U MD RFC GRCP?RCB JME?PGRFK 7FGQ BCK?LB A?L
?JQM @C Q?RGQCB SQGLE 3PMNMQGRGML  %CA?SQC TGMJ?RGML MD RFC J?U MD RFC
GRCP?RCB JME?PGRFK GQ ?L CTCLR MD QK?JJ NPM@?@GJGRW GL AJ?QQGA?J NPM@?@GJGRW
9GJJCQ RFCMPCK RCJJQ SQ RF?R RFCPC GQ ? QRP?RCEW DMP 6ICNRGA RF?R KSJRGNJGCQ
RFC A?NGR?J PGQICB @W ? J?PEC D?ARMP GD RFC J?U GQ TGMJ?RCB 6SAF ? QRP?RCEW GQ
AMLQRPSARCB GL 6F?DCP ?LB 9MTI  &F?NRCP  ?LB 3PMNMQGRGML  RCJJQ
SQ RF?R )MPCA?QRCP UGJJ Q?RGQDW RFC J?U MD RFC GRCP?RCB JME?PGRFK @W NJ?WGLE
?E?GLQR GR
7FCPC GQ KSAF KMPC RM Q?W )MP CV?KNJC

 3PMNMQGRGML  BMCQ KMPC RF?L NPCTCLR 6ICNRGA DPMK KSJRGNJWGLE RFC


A?NGR?J FC PGQIQ @W ? J?PEC D?ARMP GR NPCTCLRQ FGK DPMK K?IGLE ?LW
KMLCW ?R ?JJ 7FGQ KC?LQ RF?R BCDCLQGTC DMPCA?QRQ BM CTCL @CRRCP
UGRF PCQNCAR RM RCQRQ @CGLE BCDCLBCB ?E?GLQR RF?L AJ?QQGA?J NPM@?@GJGRW
RFCMPW CVNCARQ 5CHCARGML @W RFCQC RCQRQ GQ ?TMGBCB DMP ACPR?GL LMR
Defensive Forecasting 243

KCPCJW UGRF FGEF NPM@?@GJGRW

 )MPCA?QRCPQ QRP?RCEW ML C?AF PMSLB  BMCQ LMR BCNCLB ML RFC FMPGXML


  6M GD RFC E?KC GQ NJ?WCB GLBCLGRCJW RFC EM?J A?JG@P?RGML GL RFC
A?QC MD RFC . DMPCA?QRGLE ?JEMPGRFK GQ ?AFGCTCB DMP CTCPW  

6CC 9MTI ? DMP ? KMPC AMKNPCFCLQGTC BGQASQQGML

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3PM@?@GJGRW DMPCA?QRGLE GQ SQS?JJW @?QCB ML KMPC GLDMPK?RGML RF?L RFC
QSAACQQ MD NPCTGMSQ DMPCA?QRQ DMP RFC T?PGMSQ NPM@?@GJGRW T?JSCQ ,D P?GLD?JJ
GQ KMPC AMKKML GL $NPGJ RF?L 0?W DMP CV?KNJC RFCL ? UC?RFCP DMPCA?QRCP
QFMSJB R?IC RFGQ GLRM ?AAMSLR ,R QFMSJB P?GL ML  MD RFC $NPGJ B?WQ DMP
UFGAF FC EGTCQ P?GL ? NPM@?@GJGRW MD  ?LB ?JQM ML  MD RFC 0?W B?WQ
DMP UFGAF FC EGTCQ P?GL ? NPM@?@GJGRW   7FGQ NPMNCPRW GQ QRPMLECP RF?L
KCPC A?JG@P?RGML UFGAF PCOSGPCQ MLJW RF?R GR P?GL ML  MD ?JJ RFC B?WQ DMP
UFGAF RFC DMPCA?QRCP Q?WQ   ,R GQ A?JJCB 7*841:9.43
7M QCC RF?R BCDCLQGTC DMPCA?QRGLE A?L ?AFGCTC PCQMJSRGML ?Q UCJJ ?Q KCPC
A?JG@P?RGML UC AMLQGBCP ? NPMRMAMJ GL UFGAF 5C?JGRW NPMTGBCQ ?SVGJG?PW GL
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KC?QSPC RFC QGKGJ?PGRW MD  ! RM   !  :C K?W AFMMQC GR QM RF?R
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DMP CTCPW N?GP  ! DMP UFGAF RFC BCLMKGL?RMP GQ J?PEC


244 G. Shafer

7FGQ GQ ? QRP?GEFRDMPU?PB ECLCP?JGX?RGML MD A?JG@P?RGML ?LB RFC CLRGPC


RFCMPW RF?R , F?TC PCTGCUCB DMP A?JG@P?RGML ECLCP?JGXCQ BGPCARJW ,L RFC ECL
CP?JGX?RGML RFC . @CRRGLE QRP?RCEW GQ


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?LB . DMPCA?QRGLE ?JEMPGRFK ?AFGCTCQ EMMB PCQMJSRGML @W NJ?WGLE ?E?GLQR


GR 7FC . DMPCA?QRGLE QRP?RCEW GQ ?E?GL TCPW L?RSP?J ,R AFMMQCQ  RM
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,L MRFCP UMPBQ GR AFMMQCQ  QM RF?R UC ?JPC?BW F?TC EMMB PCQMJSRGML DMP


  !  LC?P   !  7FGQ GQ ?L?JMEMSQ RM RFC NP?ARGAC MD T?PWGLE MLCQ
?ARGMLQ UGRF RFC QGRS?RGML GL ?AAMPB?LAC UGRF N?QR CVNCPGCLAC GL BGCPCLR
QGRS?RGMLQ ,D ! GQ RFC DPGCLB , ?K QNCLBGLE RGKC UGRF ?LB  GQ MSP ?ARGTGRW
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UGRF 7MK @PGBEC UGRF 'GAI ?LB RCLLGQ UGRF +?PPW RFCL RFGQ GQ FMU , UGJJ
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$ 3FGJGN '?UGB 6CJDA?JG@P?RGLE NPGMPQ BM LMR CVGQR &MKKCLR 4:73&1
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'C?L 3 )MQRCP ?LB 5?ICQF 9 9MFP? $QWKNRMRGA A?JG@P?RGML .42*97.0&


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MD *(9:7* 49*8 .3 425:9*7 !(.*3(* N?ECQ Y +CGBCJ@CPE 
6NPGLECP
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UGRF RFC RFCMPW MD GLRCEP?J COS?RGMLQ -.14845-.(&1 "7&38&(9.438 4+ 9-*
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$JT?PM 6?LBPMLG 5?LL 6KMPMBGLQIW ?LB 5?ICQF 9MFP? &?JG@P?RGML UGRF
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246 G. Shafer

%CPLF?PB 6AF[ MJIMND ?LB $JCV?LBCP - 6KMJ? *&73.3, <.9- *73*18 0,7
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?NNC?PCB ?Q =7FC QMSPACQ MD .MJKMEMPMTQ 7:3)'*,7.* GL !9&9.89.(&1
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A Snapshot on Reasoning with


Qualitative Preference Statements in AI

Carmel Domshlak

Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel

Abstract Preference elicitation is a well-known bottleneck in decision analysis and de-


cision automation tasks, especially in applications targeting lay users that cannot be
assisted by a professional decision analyst. Focusing on the ordinal preferences of the
users, here we discuss the principles that appear to underly various frameworks devel-
oped in the AI research for interpretation and formal reasoning about sets of qualitative
preference statements.

1. Introduction

The ability to make decisions and to assess potential courses of action is a


corner-stone of numerous AI applications, including expert systems, autonomous
agents, decision-support systems, recommender systems, configuration software,
and constrained optimization applications (e.g, see [13, 14, 32, 37]). To make good
decisions, we must be able to assess and compare different alternatives. Some-
times, this comparison is performed implicitly, as it is done in some recommender
systems. However, explicit information about decision-maker preferences should
be communicated to the decision-support system.
At first view, the conceptual foundations to support such decision-aid tools
should be abound—the field of decision theory and its companion methodology
of decision analysis deal with making decisions and evaluating their quality. As
developed over some 50 years, these disciplines have provided many powerful
ideas and techniques, which exert major influences over the biological, cognitive,
and social sciences.
Unfortunately, in spite of these remarkable achievements, the tools of tradi-
tional decision theory have not proven fully adequate for supporting recent at-
tempts in artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the process of decision making.
While there are several reasons for such a gap between theory and practice (e.g.,
see an excellent discussion of this issue by Luce and Raiffa [35] back in 1957), we
believe that the Achilles heel of the traditional decision theory is the amount and
266 C. Domshlak

form of the information that the decision maker needs to communicate regarding
her preferences.
In classical decision theory and decision analysis a utility function is used to
represent the decision-maker’s preferences. Utility functions are a powerful form
of knowledge representation. They provide a quantitative measure of the desir-
ability of different outcomes, capture attitude toward risk, and support decision
making under uncertainty. However, the process of obtaining the type of informa-
tion required to generate a good utility function is time-consuming and requires
considerable effort on the part of the user. In some applications, this effort is
necessary and/or possible, e.g., when uncertainty plays a key role, and when the
decision-maker and the decision analyst are able and willing to engage in the re-
quired preference elicitation process. One would expect to see such effort invested
when medical or important business decisions are involved. However, there are
many applications where either uncertainty is not a crucial factor, or the user can-
not be engaged for a lengthy period of time (e.g., in on-line product recommen-
dation systems), or the preference elicitation process cannot be supported by a
human decision analyst and must be performed by a software system (e.g., due
to replicability or mass marketing aims). In many such cases, direct elicitation of
a good (even ordinal) utility function is not a realistic option; the traditional ap-
proach provides little help for decision makers who (for these or other reasons)
exhibit discomfort with numerical evaluation of lotteries and/or outcomes. This
shortcoming has been precisely formulated by Doyle and Thomason [21]: ”Tra-
ditional decision theory provides an account of the information that, in principle,
suffices for making a rational decision. In practice, however, the decision maker
might have never considered the type of choice in question and so might not hap-
pen to possess this information.”
But if direct eliciting of a good utility function is not a realistic option in our ap-
plication, then what is? When a utility function cannot be or need not be obtained,
we may resort to other, more qualitative forms of information communicating user
preferences. Ideally, this qualitative information should be easily obtainable from
the user by non-intrusive means. That is, we should be able to generate it from
natural and relatively simple statements about preferences obtained from the user,
and this elicitation process should be amenable to automation. In addition, auto-
mated reasoning with this information should be both semantically reasonable and
computationally efficient.
In this paper we aim at sketching a general scheme for reasoning about user
preferences that unifies treating this cognitive paradigm with the way other cog-
nitive and computational paradigms are treated in the AI research. We then try to
identify the limitations of such a general scheme, pointing on some of its shortcom-
ings that unavoidably should be addressed in practice. Both the general scheme, as
well as bypasses of its shortcomings, are then illustrated on two principle method-
ologies and their instances.
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Figure 1: The AI approach to reasoning about preferences.

2. The AI approach: Models + Languages + Algorithms

In many senses, reasoning about user preferences bare similarity to many other
problems faced by the AI research, and thus we may try dealing with user prefer-
ences in a way AI aims at treating other cognitive and computational paradigms.
The general scheme underlying the AI approach has three major components:
1. mathematical models to concretize, understand, and classify various cog-
nitive paradigms,
2. languages for describing models conveniently,
3. algorithms for answering queries about these models as efficiently as pos-
sible.
To allow a system to reason about user preferences, the user should realize to
herself her preferences as an instance of the model, and communicate this model
instance in the (agreed-upon) language to the system. Figure 1 illustrates this
scheme along with some examples for models, language(s), and queries about user
preferences the system may have to answer.
On the positive side, the foundations of decision theory suggest that we can re-
strict ourselves to models constituting (possibly partial, possibly weak) orderings
over the space of alternatives1.
While the concept of model in preferential reasoning is rather clear, the choice
of language is much more open, and this due to numerous reasons. Suppose we
adopt a language lying closest possible to our model of user preferences, that is,
the language of pairwise comparisons between possible alternatives. The good
news are that this type of information poses no ambiguity on its interpretation
1 When reasoning under certainty, the alternatives constitute concrete outcomes of the decisions,

while in reasoning under uncertainty, the alternatives constitute, e.g., lotteries over such outcomes. In
this paper we restrict ourselves to discussing reasoning under certainty, and thus the former perspective
suffices.
268 C. Domshlak

(and later we’ll show that these are good news). Thus, if the number of generally
acceptable alternatives is small, then adopting such a language appears appealing.
This language, however, do not “scale” well to applications in whose the number
of acceptable alternatives is larger than trivial. As an example, imagine yourself
sending your web-agent to look for a used car for you on the web. Even if there
are only some 100 car configurations that you are ready to accept, specifying an
ordering over 100 alternatives is not a walk in the park. Typically, however, we
have no such strict “threshold” on acceptability, and thus we’ll have to specify an
ordering over a sea of manufactured, used, and sold car configurations.
So what are other alternatives for qualitative preference specification languages?
While explicit ordering specification as above might be infeasible due to both time
and cognitive effort required from the user2 , our everyday practice shows that users
are capable of providing generalizing statements of preference such as

- “I like ecologically friendly cars”,


- “For a sport car, I prefer red color over black color”,

- “This car would be better in red”.

Assuming the preferences of the users are not entirely unsystematic, one would
expect a relatively compact set of guidelines structuring (at least the core of) the
user’s preferences. Given that, it is only natural to assume that by such generalizing
statements of preference the user will aim at communicating to the system exactly
these guidelines.
Note also that generalizing statements refer not (only) to alternatives, but to
the properties of the alternatives. To do anything with statements over properties,
both the user and the system should consider the alternatives  not as monolithic
entities, but as compound objects drawn from some combinatorial space. This
property-based perspective is typically natural to the users—when choosing a used
car to buy, we implicitly consider each car as a composition of its model, age, color,
number of previous owners, accidents history, etc. And targeting this perception of
the users, the systems also represent and keep track of the objects of users’ interest
in terms of this or another attribution  
       , by that effectively
abstracting the alternatives’ space  to   Dom  .
Taking now a closer look at the general scheme depicted in Figure 1, it appears
that the scheme complicates when facing the realm of real users. The lessons
learnt in the areas of psychology, philosophical logic, AI, and information systems
indicate at least four major obstacles to operationalising this scheme in practice as
is:
2 To illustrate the potential cognitive issues with ordering realization, recall yourself choosing a car

from a lot of say 20 cars standing for sale.


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1. Incompleteness and noise in model specification.


2. System’s uncertainty about the semantics the user puts into her statements.
3. Language constraints stemming from system’s design decisions.
4. Potential intractability of reasoning about the model on the basis of the user
statements.
The first problem is not at all specific to generalizing-statements-based languages,
and we have already discussed it above3. In contrast, the next three problems are
inherited from the necessity to adopt this or another compact preference specifica-
tion language.
Let us first illustrate the issue of uncertainty in statements’ interpretation. Here
and in what follows, we assume the user provides the system with a qualitative
preference expression
 
        
         (1)
consisting of a set of preference statements      , where    are logical
formulas over ,  
  , and , , and have the standard semantics
of strong preference, weak preference, and preferential equivalence, respectively.
First, consider an “instance comparison” statement “ is better than  ”, where
    . The interpretation of this statement poses no serious difficulties be-
cause it explicitly compares between complete descriptions of two alternatives.
However, this is the exception, rather than the rule. Most of the preference state-
ments that we use in our everyday activities (e.g., “I prefer compact cars to SUVs”)
have this or another generalizing nature. As such, these statements typically men-
tion only a subset of attributes. This creates an ambiguity with respect to the actual
referents of these statements. Several proposals on how to interpret generalizing
preference statements have been made both in philosophy and AI. However, there
is no agreed-upon solution to this problem (e.g., see [5, 22, 27]), and the inherent
uncertainty about the message that such a statement aims to communicate makes
developing such a solution very questionable. Having said that, different existing
proposals are not entirely tangential. Specifically, all these proposals suggest to in-
terpret generalizing preference statements as indirectly comparing between sets of
alternatives from , while possibly disagreeing on what what sets of alternatives
are actually compared by each statement separately, and/or by a multi-statement
preference expression as a whole.4
Next, as if interpreting preference statements over  is not complicated enough
already, note that
3 A very thorough overview of lessons learnt on this matter in psychology and philosophical logic

can be found, e.g., in [28].


4 For an excellent survey of this topic, we refer the reader to [28].
270 C. Domshlak

 The attributes  and their domains effectively constitute the maximal alpha-
bet for any language that can be used to provide the system with an informa-
tion about . In particular, the users have to communicate their preferences
to the system also only in terms of .
 The attribution  is typically fixed by the system to be used by all its users.
Moreover, this attribution typically serves various components of the sys-
tem, and often the attribution is selected to optimize system components
other than this dealing with reasoning about user preferences. (This situa-
tion is typical to the choice of schema attributes of most database systems.)
 The attribution  is just one out of many possible attributions of the physical
alternatives , and as such it does not necessarily correspond to the criteria
affecting preferences of a user over .
To stress the latter point, suppose that a used-cars catalog maintains in its records
the model and the color of the cars as a pair of attributes     . Suppose
that a user of the system likes Porsche Cayenne, likes green color, and yet strongly
dislikes green Porsche Cayenne, providing a statement capturing the latter piece of
information. In this case, the user articulates her preferences over a combination
of a particular pair of values of  and   , and no single attribute directly main-
tained by the system captures this preference-related criterion. On the positive
side, however, if the user does articulate some preference information in terms of
, then the implicit preference-related criteria behind this information obviously
have some encoding in terms of  (as it in fact happens in this “green Porsche
Cayenne” example).

3. Independence-based Preference Modeling

Probably one of the best-known instantiations of the general scheme as in Fig-


ure 1 these days is this of CP-nets [7], along with its various extensions and deriva-
tives [11, 12, 6, 19, 18, 38, 33, 44, 43]. Here we use this tool for representing and
reasoning about preferences to illustrate both the different elements of the general
scheme, as well as how the problematic issues discussed in the previous section
may pop up in its concrete instantiations.
In terms of Eq. 1, the language underlying CP-nets corresponds to sets of (con-
ditional) preference statements for values of variables ; each statement expresses
user’s preference over a single variable. For instance, in the statement ”if the car is
a sports car, I prefer black to red as its color”, the addressed variable corresponds
to the exterior color of the car. Formally, the expressions supported by CP-nets are
 
            
     Dom     Dom  
(2)
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Reasoning about the ordering induced by such an expression on  requires a


commitment to a concrete logical interpretation of these natural language state-
ments. While different interpretations are feasible, the CP-nets adopt the ceteris
paribus (all else equal) semantics for statement interpretation [28]. In this con-
servative semantics, a statement “I prefer    to    ” means that given
any two alternatives that are identical except for the value of , the user prefers
the one assigning  to  to the one assigning  . If these two alternatives differ
on some other attribute as well, then they cannot be compared based on this pref-
erence statement alone. Conditional statements have the same semantics, except
that they are restricted to comparisons between elements that satisfy the condition.
Thus, “I prefer    to    given that    ” is interpreted exactly as
above, but only for objects that satisfy    .
The model underlying the CP-nets language is this of strict partial orders.
Clearly, each preference statement as in Eq. 2 induces such a preference ordering
over . The “global” preference (ordering) relation specified by a collection of
such statements (that is, by a CP-net) corresponds to the transitive closure of the
union of these “local” preference relations. If the user provides us with consistent
information about her preferences, then the binary relation induced by the TCP-
net on  is a strict partial order. Note that this order is rarely complete, and thus
typically not all pairs of alternatives are comparable with respect to a CP-net.
Having specified the model and the language, we shall now proceed with dis-
cussing reasoning algorithms for various queries with respect to CP-nets. All
these algorithms exploit an intermediate graphical representation of preference
expressions. Given an expression  as in Eq. 1, it is represented by an annotated
graph. The nodes of the graph correspond to the attributes  and the edges provide
information about direct preferential dependencies between the variables; there is
an edge from  to   implies that user preference over values of   vary with
values of . Each node  in a CP-net is annotated with a conditional preference
table (CPT) describing the user’s preference order over Dom  for every possible
value assignment to the immediate predecessors of  (denoted   ). Figure 2
depicts a CP-net over four variables—binary , ,  and ternary  . The graph
shows that the preference over values of  depends on  ’s value, while the pref-
erence over values of  depends on the value of both  and . Actual preferences
are provided in CPTs. For example, when    , we prefer  to be false.
The structure of the CP-net graph plays an important role in determining the
consistency of preference specification and in reasoning about preference, although
the user need not be aware of this structure [7]. While not all preference expres-
sions representable as CP-nets are consistent [15], the latter is the case, e.g., for
acyclic CP-nets [7]. Note that the latter property of the CP-nets can be recognized
in time linear in —this is probably the simplest example for queries that can be
efficiently answered, at least for some sub-classes of statements as in Eq. 1.
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Figure 2: A schematic example of a TCP-net.

A more striking illustration of algorithmic exploiting of the structure induced


by the preference expressions comes in processing three other important queries:
 optimization—finding a preferentially-optimal alternative from , that is,
finding an alternative  such that      for any   ,
 dominance testing—for a pair of given alternatives    , determining
whether preference expression  entails    (denoted as      ),
and
 ordering—given a subset   , order  in a non-increasing order of
preference communicated by  (that is, if some  comes before  on this
ordering, then we have     ).
In preferential reasoning, all these three queries typically constitute NP-hard
problems [33]. Surprisingly, optimization for acyclic CP-nets can be solved in
time linear in  by a simple, top-down traversal of the graph [7]. The situation
with dominance testing is not as sharp—while NP-hard in general even for acyclic
CP-nets, this query still can be answered efficiently for boolean attributes  and
certain topologies of the CP-net’s graph [7]. Finally, the situation is most intrigu-
ing with the ordering query. As this query corresponds to sorting a given set of
alternative, and pairwise comparison between alternative is a basic operation of
any sorting procedure, at first view, it seems that ordering is at least as hard as
dominance testing. This, however, is not precisely so. To order a pair of alter-
natives     consistently with  it is sufficient to know only that    or
  . Note that this information is weaker than knowing the precise preference
relationship between  and  with respect to . While obtaining the latter knowl-
edge would unavoidably require answering dominance queries, turns out that (i)
answering its weaker counterpart can be done in time linear in  for any acyclic
CP-net over any finite-domain attributes  [7], and (ii) this procedure can be used
to sort any set of alternative    in time
  
   [8].
At the big picture, the CP-nets framework constitutes an instance of direct
logical reasoning about , and, of course, other proposals for such frameworks can
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be found in the literature. More specifically, the CP-nets framework corresponds


to what we call here independence-based methodology, roughly characterized by
the following three steps.

1. One defines certain preferential independence conditions on , and pro-


vides a “representation theorem” stating that under these conditions the
preference model can be compactly specified using certain (hopefully, in-
tuitive) language. Some of such foundational representation theorems come
from the classical works on measurement and multi-criteria decision theo-
ries [31, 29, 23], while some other (e.g., those underlying the CP-nets tool)
come from the research in AI (e.g., see [7, 44, 2]).
2. Next, one possibly defines some additional preferential independence con-
ditions on  under which the model is not only compactly specifiable, but
can also be reasoned about efficiently (at least for some queries of interest).

3. Finally, the system poses restrictions on the form of allowable preference


expressions, so that they are constrained to a sufficiently simple language
for which the conditions from above are fulfilled.

Unfortunately, all independence-based methodologies for direct logical rea-


soning about preferences are limited by severe trade-offs between computational
efficiency and semantic expressiveness (i.e., the richness of the supported prefer-
ence expressions) [7, 33, 24, 44]. In attempt to escape these trade-offs as much as
possible at least for optimization and ordering queries, several works in AI (e.g.,
see [4, 10, 9, 25, 34, 36]) suggested compiling the information carried by  into
an ordinal utility function
     (3)
consistent with (what we believe  tells us about) , that is requiring

               (4)

The consistency requirement posed on  by Eq. 4 says that ordering a set of alter-
natives from  in a non-increasing order of values provided to these alternatives
by  will never put alternative  before alternative  if our interpretation of the
user’s expression  implies that the user strictly prefers  to . The task of con-
structing such a utility function  from  is called ordinal utility revelation.
Observe that specifying a utility function  as in Eq. 3 can be expensive due
to the fact that   
 . Thus, previous works on ordinal utility revela-
tion suggested to stick here as well to the independence-based methodology (e.g.,
see [1, 6, 9, 25, 26, 32, 36]); in case of ordinal utility revelation, the first two steps
of the above methodology are as follows.
274 C. Domshlak

1. One defines certain preferential independence conditions on , and pro-


vides a “representation theorem” stating that under these conditions  can
be compactly represented.
2. Next, one possibly defines some additional preferential independence con-
ditions on  under which a utility function  consistent with  is not
only compactly representable, but also can be efficiently generated from
 [25, 36, 9].

Considering the first step, note that any function  as in Eq. 3 can be repre-
sented in a generalized additive form [23, 1]:


     (5)


where each sub-function  depends on some subset of variables   , and


 is the restriction of a complete assignment    to the attributes in .
Note that  can be selected to be any function that maps a (partial) assignment
to a real value. The generality of Eq. 5 is immediate since we may have   
and   , which means that one can effectively select a function   that
assigns an arbitrary utility to each possible complete assignment    .
While by itself this generality of Eq. 5 has no practical implications, Eq. 5
allows us to generalize the core assumptions of previous works on ordinal util-
ity revelation — each concrete instance of the independence-based methodology
corresponds to some independence conditions on  that guarantee existence of
 (i) satisfying Eq. 4 and (ii) having a compact decomposition in terms of Eq. 5
(that is, defined by a small number  of small attribute subsets). An additional key
property of all previous works is that attribute subsets       decompos-
ing  are assumed to be known to the system.Finally, to our knowledge, all the
works on independence-based ordinal utility revelation (except for the approach
suggested in [26]) assume that the user’s preference expression is consistent, that
is, the user makes no mistakes in specifying her preferences. In practice, however,
this assumption is not necessarily reasonable.

4. Unstructured Preference Modeling

In short, the independence-based methodologies for multi-attribute preference


revelation are parametrized by the structure that user preferences induce on , and
thus are applicable only when such compact structure exists and is known to the
system. In Section 2, however, we have discussed already the limited power of 
to provide the “ultimate alphabet” for preference specification. The attributes 
do not necessarily correspond to the criteria affecting preference of each individual
A Snapshot on Reasoning in AI 275

user over , and thus, even if user preferences are compactly structured, they
should not necessarily be compactly structured over .
Having in mind the “lessons learnt” from exploring the independence-based
methodology for a few decades, let us try sketching the “universal instance” of the
general information-processing scheme as in Figure 1. The vision here is threefold.
1. The user should be able to provide preference expressions  while being as
little constrained in her language as possible.

2. The preference-model revelation machinery should be completely non-parametric,


that is free of any explicit assumptions about the structure of the user pref-
erence ordering.

3. Both the process of model revelation and reasoning with the revealed model
should be computationally efficient, including the case where user prefer-
ences pose no significant independence structure on  whatsoever.

While possibly not formalized precisely this way, this vision is obviously not
new. For instance, while listing open problems in the area, Doyle [20] addresses
the problem of language constraints and fixed attribution, and writes: “Can one
recast the underlying set [of attributed alternatives] in terms of a different span
of dimensions such that the utility function becomes linear? If so, can one find
new linearizing dimensions that also mean something to human interpreters?” The
same questions were considered by Shoham in the scope of his work on utility
distributions [39, 40]. In an attempt to provide a unified view on probabilities and
utilities, Shoham showed that, in principle, such a set of linearizing dimensions
(called, in [39, 40], factors) exist for any utility function, and that this set of di-
mensions may have to be exponentially larger than the original set of attributes.
However, the result of Shoham is more foundational than operational. The con-
nection between the attributes and the particular set of factors proposed in [39, 40]
is not generally natural, and thus it is rather unclear how to perform preference
elicitation with respect to this set of factors. Likewise, no efficient computational
scheme for reasoning about this, potentially very large, set of factors has been
suggested until these days.
It is possible, of course, that the “universal methodology” as above is sim-
ply utopia. Some recent results, however, provide a positive evidence that, at
least getting close to, this utopia is possible. In particular, a recently suggested
by Domshlak and Joachims [16, 17] framework for ordinal utility revelation ap-
pears to satisfy to a large degree all the desiderata of the “universal methodol-
ogy” as above. Connecting some ideas from knowledge representation, machine
learning, and philosophical logic, this frameworks is based on a high-dimensional
preference decomposition, and a specific adaptation of certain standard techniques
for high-dimensional continuous optimization. Here we briefly outline the basic
276 C. Domshlak

knowledge-representation idea underlying this proposal, referring the reader for


details and computational solutions to [17].
Suppose the user provides the system with a preference expression , and the
task of the system to suggest an ordinal utility function  satisfying Eq. 3-4. In
general case, the system is not provided with any information about the indepen-
dence structure the user preferences induce on . In fact, the system cannot even
assume that a significant such independence structure on  exists. The basic idea
underlying the framework in [17] is simple: If no useful preferential independence
information in the original representation space  is provided, the only escape is to
switch to a different space in which no such independence information is required.
But what this “different space” can be?
Assuming here that the attributes  are all binary-valued, let us schematically
map the alternatives  into a new, higher dimensional space  using a certain
mapping 
        (6)
Specifically, the mapping  connections between the dimensions of  and  as
follows. Let  
     be a labeling of the dimensions of  , and


   
         


be the union of attribute domains in . Let      be a bijective map-


ping from the dimensions of  onto the power set of , uniquely associating each
dimension  with a subset    , and vice versa. Let     de-
note the subset of attributes “instantiated” by   . For example, if   

     , then   
     . Given that, for each    and
  , we set:

         
    (7)
  

That is, geometrically,  maps each -dimensional vector    to the  -


dimensional vector in  that uniquely encodes the set of all projections of  onto
the subspaces of  .
Considering the semantics of the transformation , recall the pitfalls of the
system-level fixing of the attribution , along with the example of green Porsche
discussed in Section 2. In that example, the user articulates her preferences over
a combination of a particular pair of values of two attributes     , and
no single attribute in  can directly capture the user’s utility alone. However,
as we also already suggested in Section 2, (i) if such a complex preference is
articulatable in terms of the attributes , then it has to correspond to this or another
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set of value assignments to a subset of , and (ii) the evaluation of any abstracted
alternative    with respect to such a complex preference corresponds to a
single value assignment to a subset of , and that is, to a single dimension of
 . This means that there are not only dimensions in  that capture the utilities
of “Porsche” and “green”, but there is also a dimension that directly captures the
utility of “green Porsche”. This correspondence between complex preferences
and individual dimensions of  makes the semantics of  very attractive. In
addition, it can be shown that any preference ordering over alternatives  can be
captured by a linear real-valued function from  (to which the alternatives in 
are transformed using .)
Now, let us dedicate a few words to interpretation of preference expressions 
suggested in [17]. Assuming here that the referents of the statements in  corre-
spond to propositional logic formulas over , consider an arbitrary comparative
statement   . Let    (and similarly  ) be the variables involved
in , and    Dom  be the set of all ’s models in the subspace of 
defined by  . For instance, if  
       , and      , then
 
   , and   
        . In [17], the statement  
is compiled into a set of constraints on the space of (candidate) linear, real-valued
functions from  . Specifically,   is compiled into a set of      
constraints
 
            (8)

  
 

where  denotes the set of all non-empty value subsets of the local model .
For example, statement      (e.g., “It is more important that the
car is powerful or fast than not having had an accident”) is compiled into

     


      (9)
     

The constraint system  resulting from such compilation of a user expression


 defines the space of solutions for the framework in [17]. (The reader is re-
ferred to [17] for a thorough discussion on why this approach constitutes a least
committing interpretation of preference statement.) Note, however, that solving 
poses numerous complexity issues. First, though this constraint system is linear,

it is linear in the exponential space  . Second, the very description size of ,
and, in fact, of each individual constraint in , can be exponential in . Inter-
estingly, Domshlak and Joachims show that these complexity complexity issues
can be overcome by using some duality techniques from optimization theory [3]
and Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) [30, 42, 41]. At the very bottom
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line5 , these techniques allow for computing a solution for  (corresponding to the
desired ordering function     ), and subsequently computing the values of

 on  without requiring any explicit computation in  .

5. Summarizing Discussion

The goal of this paper was mainly to provide a personal perspective of the au-
thor on the way user preferences are (or should be) modeled and reasoned about by
general purpose systems such as these considered by the AI research. One impor-
tant thing implied by this perspective is that the general model/language/algorithms
scheme can be arguably instantiated in lots of ways, and each such proposal will
unavoidably be open for (not less arguable) critique from this or another angle. If
so, then the only real evidence for/against this or another concrete proposal will
have to come from the experience with these proposals in practice. Unfortunately,
here we observe a paradoxical deadlock situation suggesting the “chicken-and-
egg” metaphor.
On the one hand, it is only natural to assume that reasoning about user’s pref-
erence expressions is useful in many applicative domains (e.g., in online catalog
systems). On the other hand, to our knowledge, no application these days allows
its users to express any but trivial (e.g., “bag-of-word”) preference expressions.
It seems that the real-world players wait for the research community to come up
with a concrete suggestion on how natural-language style preference expressions
should be treated, while the research community waits for the real-world to provide
it with the data essential to make the former decision. It is clear that this deadlock
situation should somehow be resolved, and we believe that now this should be a
primary goal for both sides.

Acknowledgments

My personal perspective on preferences in AI outlined here resulted (directly


or indirectly) from numerous discussions I had on the topic with Ronen Brafman,
Thorsten Joachims, Craig Boutilier, Hector Geffner, and many other colleagues
and friends. This, however, does not imply that any of them necessarily agree with
this perspective as a whole, or any of its parts.
5 Presenting the computational machinery here is simply infeasible, and thus the reader is referred

to [17].
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