On Middle Grounds for Preference Statements
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| author | George, Anne-Marie Ozaki, Ana |
| author_facet | George, Anne-Marie Ozaki, Ana |
| contents | In group decisions or deliberations, stakeholders are often confronted with conflicting opinions. We investigate a logic-based way of expressing such opinions and a formal general notion of a middle ground between stakeholders. Inspired by the literature on preferences with hierarchical and lexicographic models, we instantiate our general framework to the case where stakeholders express their opinions using preference statements of the form I prefer 'a' to 'b', where 'a' and 'b' are alternatives expressed over some attributes, e.g., in a trolley problem, one can express I prefer to save 1 adult and 1 child to 2 adults (and 0 children). We prove theoretical results on the existence and uniqueness of middle grounds. In particular, we show that, for preference statements, middle grounds may not exist and may not be unique. We also provide algorithms for deciding the existence and finding middle grounds. |
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| spellingShingle | On Middle Grounds for Preference Statements George, Anne-Marie Ozaki, Ana Logic in Computer Science Computational Complexity In group decisions or deliberations, stakeholders are often confronted with conflicting opinions. We investigate a logic-based way of expressing such opinions and a formal general notion of a middle ground between stakeholders. Inspired by the literature on preferences with hierarchical and lexicographic models, we instantiate our general framework to the case where stakeholders express their opinions using preference statements of the form I prefer 'a' to 'b', where 'a' and 'b' are alternatives expressed over some attributes, e.g., in a trolley problem, one can express I prefer to save 1 adult and 1 child to 2 adults (and 0 children). We prove theoretical results on the existence and uniqueness of middle grounds. In particular, we show that, for preference statements, middle grounds may not exist and may not be unique. We also provide algorithms for deciding the existence and finding middle grounds. |
| title | On Middle Grounds for Preference Statements |
| topic | Logic in Computer Science Computational Complexity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09553 |