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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Preference functions"”.
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Hierarchical planning and scheduling of looping a activities for robotic scouts
… have a range of acceptable loop values and a preference function over them. For example, during robotic survey missions, information gain is expected to increase with the number of loops in a search pattern. Since these looping activities also take time, which is typically bounded, there is a …
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Multi-objective optimal operation of urban water supply systems
… facilitated the incorporation of stakeholder preferences in the decision making process is a main focus area in this research. The main elements of the framework are illustrated on a case study of the Melbourne water supply system, demonstrating its capabilities for evaluating alternative …
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The role of individual variation in auditory and visual processing: implications for mate choice
… their songs with a visual display. I tested how preference functions (i.e., the function describing female preference across variation in male traits) and subsequent selection on male traits can be altered under four scenarios of varying multimodal signal content. To do this, I assessed female …
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Revealed Preference Analysis Under Nontransitive Preferences
… presents three chapters that examine revealed preference theory under the assumption that economic agents may have nontransitive preferences. The first chapter introduces the Random Preference Model (RPM), a framework similar to the Random Utility Model (RUM) designed to explain consumer choice …