Conditional Importance Networks: A Graphical Language for Representing Ordinal, Monotonic Preferences over Sets of Goods
Sylvain Bouveret, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang

Abstract:
While there are several languages for representing combinatorial
preferences over sets of alternatives, none of these are well-suited
to the representation of ordinal preferences over sets of goods (which
are typically required to be monotonic). We propose such a language,
taking inspiration from previous work on graphical languages for
preference representation, specifically CP-nets, and introduce
conditional importance networks (CI-nets). A CI-net includes
statements of the form "if I have a set A of goods, and I do not have
any of the goods from some other set B, then I prefer the set of goods
C over the set of goods D." We investigate expressivity and complexity
issues for CI-nets. Then we show that CI-nets are well-suited to the
description of fair division problems.