{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Modular Systems with Preferences","authors":[{"name":"Alireza Ensan","slug":"alireza-ensan","given":"Alireza","family":"Ensan","affiliation":""},{"name":"Eugenia Ternovskaia","slug":"eugenia-ternovskaia","given":"Eugenia","family":"Ternovskaia","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"We propose a versatile framework for combining knowledge bases in modular systems with preferences. In our formalism, each module (knowledge base) can be specified in a different language. We define the notion of a preference-based modular system that includes a formalization of meta-preferences. We prove that our formalism is robust in the sense that the operations for combining modules preserve the notion of a preference-based modular system. Finally, we formally demonstrate correspondences between our framework and the related preference formalisms of cp-nets and preference-based planning. Our framework allows one to use these preference formalisms (and others) in combination, in the same modular system.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/416","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0416.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/416.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/bibtex/416","volume":{"slug":"2015","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2015","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/","year":2015,"location":"Buenos Aires, Argentina","dates":"25–31 July 2015","editors":"Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge","isbn":"978-1-57735-738-4","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Special Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","track":"Special Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","number":416,"pages":{"first":2940,"last":2946},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}