When Policies Are Better Than Plans: Decision-Theoretic Planning of Recommendation Sequences

By: Thorsten Bohnenberger and Anthony Jameson (2001)

In J. Lester (Ed.), IUI 2001: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 21-24). New York: ACM.

Abstract: An intelligent user interface sometimes needs to present a sequence of related recommendations to a user, in spite of being uncertain in advance as to whether (and with what success) the user will follow each recommendation. There are potential advantages to the use of decision-theoretic planning methods which yield an optimal policy for the situation-dependent presentation of recommendations. This approach is discussed with reference to an example involving route instructions given by an airport assistance system.

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BibTeX entry:

@incollection{BohnenbergerJ01,
  year = {2001},
  author = {{Bohnenberger}, Thorsten and {Jameson}, Anthony},
  editor = {{Lester}, James},
  title = {When Policies Are Better Than Plans: Decision-Theoretic Planning of Recommendation Sequences},
  booktitle = {{IUI~2001: {I}nternational {C}onference on {I}ntelligent {U}ser {I}nterfaces}},
  address = {New York},
  publisher = {ACM},
  pages = {21--24},
  note = {Available from http://dfki.de/$\sim$jameson/abs/BohnenbergerJ01.html}}