Preference analysis is a class of important issues in ordinal decision making. As available information is usually obtained from different evaluation criteria or experts, the derived preference decisions may be inconsistent and uncertain. Shannon ent...
After the enactment of the GDPR in 2018, many companies were forced to rethink their privacy management in order to comply with the new legal framework. These changes mostly affect the Controller to achieve GDPR-compliant privacy policies and managem...
Precision (personalised) medicine for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) adopts a molecularly guided approach. Standard-of-care testing in Australia is via sequential single-gene testing which is inefficient and leads to tissue exhaustion. The purpos...
During the decision-making process, evaluation information may be given in different formats based on the decision makers’ research fields or personal customs. To address the situation that alternatives are evaluated by both intuitionistic fuzzy pref...
Drawing on the well-documented preference for natural and highly biodiverse environments in humans, it has been proposed that other animals may also recognise and show interest in natural stimuli. If widespread across animals, such a preference could...
Taste perception is a well-documented driving force in food selection, with variations in, e.g., taste receptor encoding and glucose transporter genes conferring differences in taste sensitivity and food intake. We explored the impact of maternal inn...
The realization of large-scale complex engineered systems is contingent upon satisfaction of the preferences of the stakeholder. With numerous decisions being involved in all the aspects of the system lifecycle, from conception to disposal, it is cri...
Revealed preference is an approach in consumer theory that infers preferences from observed choices rather than treating preferences or utility as directly given. If a consumer chooses one bundle when another bundle is also affordable, the chosen bun...
We test the empirical content of the assumption of preference dependent beliefs using a behavioral model of strategic decision making in which the rankings of individuals over final outcomes in simple games influence their beliefs over the opponent&r...
30 March 2020
To effectively deal with the waste management problems faced by cities, it is of great significance to promote the sorting and recycling of municipal solid waste. Given the correlation between individual behavior and psychological preferences and ext...
Classification is one of the main problems of machine learning, and assessing the quality of classification is one of the most topical tasks, all the more difficult as it depends on many factors. Many different measures have been proposed to assess t...
Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) are ubiquitous in scientific research and engineering applications, where multiple conflicting objectives must be optimized simultaneously. Unlike traditional multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, which...
Child-directed speech (CDS) is characterized by a suite of exaggerated acoustic features, with elevated fundamental frequency (pitch) being a prominent and widely adopted component. While caregivers and educators frequently use high-pitch speech with...
The effect of social preferences, such as altruism and trust, on economic development is widely recognized. However, the reciprocal impact, i.e., how individuals experience the economic environment and how this shapes their social preferences, has re...
The paper describes an approach for indirect data-based assessment and use of user preferences in an unobtrusive sensor-based coaching system with the aim of improving coaching effectiveness. The preference assessments are used to adapt the reasoning...
Listening to music has been repeatedly shown to have ergogenic benefits during various modes of exercise, including endurance, sprint, and resistance-based activities. Music is commonly incorporated into training regimens by recreational exercisers a...
Preferences or dislikes for specific numbers are ubiquitous in human society. In traditional Chinese culture, people show special preference for some numbers, such as 6, 8, 10, 100, 200, etc. By analyzing the data of 6.8 million users of Sina Weibo,...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of preferred versus non-preferred music volume on relative power output, trial time to completion (TTC), heart rate (HR), rate of perceived exertion (RPE), and motivation during endurance rowing ex...
Recruitment is a time-consuming process, and AI systems are increasingly being used to support the decision-making process. However, machine learning models used in such systems can inherit bias if the underlying training data reflects biased human p...
The economic contribution of forest resources to the communities surrounding nature reserves cannot be ignored. The method for which to find a forest resource utilization path to balance the contradiction between local farmers’ economic develop...
Risk preference theory states that religiosity positively correlates with risk aversion. Based on data from the 2018 wave of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study tested risk preference theory in the Chinese mainland. A binary logistic re...
Direct preference optimization (DPO) has been successfully applied to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. In recent years, DPO has also been used to improve the generation quality of text-to-image diffusion models. However, exi...
Research with humans and other animals has suggested that preferential limb use is linked to emotionality. A better understanding of this still under-explored area has the potential to establish limb preference as a marker of emotional vulnerability...
The growth of the number of pet products and the pet food industry is continuous. This is partially driven by palatability and perceptions of preference. A preference ranking procedure for dogs has been proposed in order to suggest a more efficient m...
Mate choice can vary with internal condition, but whether gut microbial variation is associated with female mate-choice-related olfactory preferences remains poorly understood. In this study, we tested whether dietary dried yeast supplementation was...
Paradoxical decision-making behaviours such as preference reversal often arise from imprecise or noisy human preferences. Harnessing the physical principle of magnetisation reversal in ferromagnetic nanostructures, we developed a model that closely r...
Dog and cat preference has been associated with a few factors, like owner personality traits, but data regarding other aspects of preference ontogeny and the impact of preferences on pet wellbeing have yet to be examined. In this exploratory study, s...
Background/Objectives: Understanding food preferences is important for weight management. However, methods for assessing food preferences are not well established, especially in Japan. This study aimed to examine detailed food preferences and their a...
This study examines the discrepancy between stated preferences and actual behavior in entertainment consumption, with a particular focus on the role of perceived accessibility constraints. While literature suggests that factors such as time and cost...
This paper presents an incentivized experiment analyzing the role of demographic characteristics in individual decision-making under uncertainty. Reactions to a natural source of uncertainty, payoffs in a TV game show, were measured using Fuzzy-set Q...
How infants engage with objects changes dramatically over the first year of life. While some infants exhibit a consistent hand preference for acquiring objects during this period, others have no identifiable preference. The goal of this study was to...
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) produces powerful instruction-following models but relies on a preference-labeling process that is both costly and slow. An effective alternative, Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF), uses...
Subgroup label ranking aims to rank groups of labels using a single ranking model, is a new problem faced in preference learning. This paper introduces the Subgroup Preference Neural Network (SGPNN) that combines multiple networks have different acti...
Facial symmetry is purportedly attractive, though methods for measuring preference for facial symmetry vary between studies. Some studies have used a two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) task, while others have used a ratings task. How researchers ma...
An investment in a portfolio can not only guarantee returns but can also effectively control risk factors. Portfolio optimization is a multi-objective optimization problem. In order to better assist a decision maker to obtain his/her preferred invest...
Robots are increasingly employed in diverse services, from room cleaning to coffee preparation, necessitating an accurate understanding of user preferences. Traditional preference-based learning allows robots to learn these preferences through iterat...
Understanding the preferences of scuba divers is crucial for authorities to establish appropriate management plans and for service providers to offer a wide range of recreation opportunities to promote long-term industrial sustainability. This study...
Group decision making (GDM), which aims to obtain a sensible decision result with several decision makers, is a common occurrence in daily life. Since the uncertainty of the objects is a thorny issue in the process of GDM, it is important to eliminat...
The mismatch between nursing home provision and older adults’ preferences has become a critical challenge for urban planning, yet limited attention has been paid to how different nursing home attributes are evaluated and whether such preference...
Recreation activity preferences in forest settings were explored in a scene preference study. The importance of type of human intervention and the level of biodiversity for preference and intention to engage in recreation activities were examined in...
Task-oriented dialogue systems face a tension between comprehensive constraint elicitation (task adequacy) and conversational efficiency (minimizing turns). Current preference learning frameworks treat preferences as static, unable to capture the dyn...
This paper reviews the decisions, coordination contract, and altruistic preference of an e-commerce supply chain (eSC) composed of a manufacturer and a third-party e-commerce platform (platform). The research derives optimal decisions in a decentrali...
9 November 2021
Urban parks positively affect the life quality and health of urban residents as well as the environment where they live. When it comes to the design of a future urban forest park, it is necessary to consider the protection of ecological environment,...
Factors associated with sweetness preference are multi-faceted and incredibly complex. A scoping review was undertaken to identify determinants of sweetness preference in humans. Using an online search tool, ProQuest ™, a total of 99 publicatio...
This study investigates how Australian consumers’ aesthetic preferences for timber joints in architectural products are influenced by their sociodemographic characteristics and the visual appearance of the joints. Visual appearance in architect...
Wildlife tourism is one of the strongest-performing sectors in the global tourism market. While tourists’ preferences for and affection towards animals are a cornerstone of the industry, a better understanding of how experiences, including anim...
Diffusion Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) provides a reward-free route for aligning text-to-image diffusion models with human preferences, but its supervision is commonly restricted to fixed winner–loser pairs. When dispreferred examples c...
The factors that affect a consumer when making a purchase decision include product function, quality, and price. Different products might feature similar functional performance although they are designed and manufactured by different vendors. The mos...
Little is known about the detection of and preference for multiple simultaneous parallel axes of symmetry. Neuroscientists have suggested that the detection of symmetry occurs in extrastriate brain areas with large receptive fields. Such large recept...
The Sichuan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) is a typical arboreal group-living Old-World primate and has been studied broadly in hand preference. However, infants have not been tested independently from other immature individuals to date....
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