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The Decision-Theoretic Interactive Video Advisor

@article{Nguyen1999TheDI,
  title={The Decision-Theoretic Interactive Video Advisor},
  author={Hien Nguyen and Peter Haddawy},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={1999},
  volume={abs/1301.6728}
}
The need to help people choose among large numbers of items and to filter through large amounts of information has led to a flood of research in construction of personal recommendation agents. One of the central issues in constructing such agents is the representation and elicitation of user preferences or interests. This topic has long been studied in Decision Theory, but surprisingly little work in the area of recommender systems has made use of formal decision-theoretic techniques. This… 
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