The phrase "agents of preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing individuals or entities that influence or determine choices or preferences in a particular situation.
Example: "In the study of consumer behavior, marketers often act as agents of preference, shaping the choices available to potential buyers."
Alternatives: "influencers of choice" or "decision-making agents".
Adequacy here may hinge on empirical tradeoffs between fit and simplicity in representing the agent's "web" of preference attitudes, or it may hinge on further normative principles regarding what sorts of outcomes an agent may reasonably discriminate (for discussion, see Tversky 1975; Broome 1991a & 1993; Pettit 1993; Guala 2006).
What this means is that if U and V are both expected utility functions representing the preferences of an agent, then for all objects of preference, X, V(X) must be equal to aU X) + b, where a and b are real numbers and a is positive.
There are two conditions frequently used in the literature for the median voter theorem: Single-peakedness condition on preferences, and single-crossing property of
For mediating agents a (preference) model of participants is indispensable.
Given the need to improve tolerability of therapeutic agents and preference to avoid chemotherapy, abiraterone acetate's outcomes in chemotherapy-naïve patients were highly anticipated.
In this framework, we are able to analyze the aggregate and disaggregate welfare effects for each cohort the former corresponding to a single representative agent within a cohort and the latter to possibly heterogeneous effects for agents of different abilities and preferences.
For example, considering the feature price interval of preference of seller agent in an e-commerce application.
The set of preference relations of an agent may be incomplete because, for example, there is an ongoing preference elicitation process.
For a domain of options we speak of an agent's preference ordering, this being the ordering of options that is generated by the agent's preference between any two options in that domain.
