Because there is a larger "pie" of goods and services to satisfy preferences (since compensation could be paid and everybody's preferences better satisfied), selecting policies with the greatest net benefit serves economic efficiency (Hicks 1939, Kaldor 1939).
Architects design structures and environments for people, with concomitant effects on personal behavior, capacity to choose courses of action, and ability to satisfy preferences, visit harm, generate benefit, or exercise rights.
Even a small consideration of preferences (PS = 10) produces a substantial increase in the proportion of satisfied preferences: with low demand (demand = 16) 56.3 ± 1.2%% of preferences are satisfied, though with a small increase in mean travel time to 35.8 ± 0.5 min.
Most people, I think, mean by intelligent behavior, behavior that satisfies your preferences, or something like that.
In order to get a solution that satisfies individual preferences, existing algorithms are consecutively applied in a trial and error manner.
The point in this particular exercise is not to satisfy your preferences or your girlfriend's, at least not at first.
In a delightful and instructive section, he shows how standards of beauty in cats have changed as their physical characteristics have themselves changed as they have been bred to satisfy human preferences.
If, at the other extreme, it assumed that people seek to satisfy their preferences (or some such formula), then it would be true merely by virtue of the meaning of the words and it would not tell you anything.
In contrast, the optimal factor settings obtained using FGP completely satisfy engineers' preferences.
The goods that best satisfy their preferences are the ones of the highest quality [23].
