More-or-Less CP-Networks
  Preferences play an important role in our everyday lives. CP-networks, or
CP-nets in short, are graphical models for representing conditional qualitative
preferences under ceteris paribus ("all else being equal") assumptions. Despite
their intuitive nature and rich representation, dominance testing with CP-nets
is computationally complex, even when the CP-nets are restricted to
binary-valued preferences. Tractable algorithms exist for binary CP-nets, but
these algorithms are incomplete for multi-valued CPnets. In this paper, we
identify a class of multivalued CP-nets, which we call more-or-less CPnets,
that have the same computational complexity as binary CP-nets. More-or-less
CP-nets exploit the monotonicity of the attribute values and use intervals to
aggregate values that induce similar preferences. We then present a search
control rule for dominance testing that effectively prunes the search space
while preserving completeness.
