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We then discuss a few ongoing and future directions.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2017/741","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/741","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0741.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/741.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/bibtex/741","volume":{"slug":"2017","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2017","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/","year":2017,"location":"Melbourne, Australia","dates":"19-25 August 2017","editors":"Carles Sierra","isbn":"978-0-9992411-0-3","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2017"},"section":"Early Career","track":"Early Career","number":741,"pages":{"first":5156,"last":5160},"keywords":["Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Logic: Preference modelling and preference-based reasoning","Uncertainty in AI: Decision/Utility Theory","Machine Learning: Learning Preferences or Rankings","Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Social Choice Theory"],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Azari Soufiani et al., 2012] Hossein Azari Soufiani, David C. 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