Modeling Preferences with Availability Constraints

• Main Authors: DAI, Bingtian, LAUW, Hady W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: latent interests; topic translation; topic model; graphical model; user preferences; latent transition model; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1896; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2895/viewcontent/Lauw2013ICDMModelingpref.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

User preferences are commonly learned from historical data whereby users express preferences for items, e.g., through consumption of products or services. Most work assumes that a user is not constrained in their selection of items. This assumption does not take into account the availability constra...