Planning with preferences involves not only finding a plan that achieves the goal, it requires finding a preferred plan that achieves the goal, where preferences over plans are specified as part of the planner's input. In ...

Preferences for the height of feeding troughs of seven mares were evaluated and, as awareness of surroundings when feeding is adaptive for horses, the relationship between preference responses and attention behaviours was ...

Stated preference (SP) methods collect data on consumer tastes by direct elicitation, in contrast to revealed preference (RP) methods that infer tastes from observed market demand behavior. Leading SP methods are choice-based ...

Beliefs about how goods and resources should be distributed in society constitute a central element in the identification with political parties. In this sense, the preference for a more or less active role of the state ...

The combination of a strict labor legislation with daily and weekly time-dependent demand patterns has meant that transit companies tend to suffer significant inefficiencies; indeed, as more drivers than the minimum required ...

Animal preference and motivation have been used to assess different kinds of environmental resources that may help improve welfare conditions. However, preference and motivation are typically tested separately, and these ...

Although noise levels in urban areas frequently surpass the designated norms the consequences on health are only beginning to be examined. A stated preference experiment is used to estimate the willingness-to-pay for ...

This paper obtains an additive representation for preferences over subsets of a finite set relaxing the two substantive axioms in Kreps (1979) flexibility theorem. The result implies that the lottery structure and assumptions ...