SUPPORTING PREFERENCE ELICITATION - THE FAW PREFERENCE ELICITATION TOOL

The integration of decision analysis and expert system technology has not yet been sufficiently accomplished. For instance, knowledge-based systems often lack sophisticated abilities with respect to explicitly formulating needs of users, e.g. preference modelling. The approach pr esented has a broad range of applications but is aimed particularly at those in which the user's objective is not easily identified. Applica tions for machine scheduling and environmental risk assessment are out lined. We describe how identifying and continuously updating user pref erences can be formally established.