Logical Probability Preferences

Abstract

We present a unified logical framework for representing and reasoning about both probability quantitative and qualitative preferences in probability answer set programming [Saad and Pontelli, 2006;Saad, 2007a], called probability answer set optimization programs. The proposed framework is vital to allow defining probability quantitative preferences over the possible outcomes of qualitative preferences. We show the application of probability answer set optimization programs to a variant of the well-known nurse restoring problem [Bard and Purnomo, 2005], called the nurse restoring with probability preferences problem.To the best of our knowledge, this development is the first to consider a logical framework for reasoning about probability quantitative preferences, in general, and reasoning about both probability quantitative and qualitative preferences in particular.