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\subsection*{The First Two Papers}

\bibitem{boutilier97}
Craig Boutilier, Ronen Brafman, Chris Geib, and David Poole.
\newblock A constraint-based approach to preference elicitation and decision
  making.
\newblock In {\em AAAI Spring Symposium on Qualitative Decision Theory}, 1997.
 \begin{quotation}\noindent {\em Boutilier is one of the most published
  researchers in the area; this seems like a nice approach to the general
  problem, and should have some good references to follow.} \end{quotation}
\bibitem{boutilier01}
Craig Boutilier, Fahiem Bacchus, and Ronen~I. Brafman.
\newblock {UCP-Networks}: A directed graphical representation of conditional
  utilities.
\newblock In {\em Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in AI}, 2001.
 \begin{quotation}\noindent {\em Not about preference elicitation per se, but
  about representing structured utilities, which can help to guide the
  elicitation process.} \end{quotation}

\subsection*{The Last Three Papers}

\bibitem{bacchus96}
Fahiem Bacchus and Adam~J. Grove.
\newblock Utility independence in a qualitative decision theory.
\newblock In {\em Proceedings of KR'96}, pages 542--552, 1996.
 \begin{quotation}\noindent {\em Everybody seems to cite this paper.}
  \end{quotation}
\bibitem{cohen01}
William~W. Cohen, Robert~E. Schapire, and Yoram Singer.
\newblock Learning to order things.
\newblock {\em Journal of AI Research}, 10:243--270, 1999.
 \begin{quotation}\noindent {\em Not exactly elicitation of a full preference
  function, but a related problem of learning rank-ordering functions over sets
  of objects.]} \end{quotation}

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