Eliciting agents´ preferences from contextual knowledge about their goals, constraints, priorities, emotions and attitudes using the Constrained Rationality framework

Constrained Rationality is a formal qualitative goals and constraints reasoning framework to analyze and rationalize about single and multi-agent strategic decisions/conflicts. The framework is extended in this paper by adding mechanisms to: 1) model the agents´ priorities, emotions and attitudes within the context of the conflict; and 2) elicit the agents´ cardinal and ordinal preferences over their alternatives using the amount of achievement the strategic goals of the agents can harness from each alternative, given the collective goals, constraints, priorities, emotions and attitudes, the agents individually have. An illustrative strategic decision making case is given at the end to demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework and the proposed modeling and reasoning mechanisms.