@inproceedings{boutilier97,
author = "Craig Boutilier and Ronen Brafman and Chris Geib and 
David Poole", 
title = "A constraint-based approach to preference elicitation and 
decision making",
booktitle = "AAAI Spring Symposium on Qualitative Decision Theory",
year = 1997,
annote = "{\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.}"
}

@inproceedings{boutilier01,
author = "Craig Boutilier and Fahiem Bacchus and Ronen I. Brafman",
title = "{UCP-Networks}: A directed graphical representation of 
conditional utilities", 
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in AI",
year = 2001,
page = "56--64",
annote = "{\em Not about preference elicitation per se, but
about representing structured utilities, which can help to guide the 
elicitation process.}"
}

@inproceedings{bacchus96,
author = "Fahiem Bacchus and Adam J. Grove",
title = "Utility independence in a qualitative decision theory",
booktitle = "Proceedings of KR'96",
year = 1996,
pages = "542--552",
annote = "{\em Everybody seems to cite this paper.}"
}

@article{cohen01,
author = "William W. Cohen and Robert E. Schapire and Yoram Singer",
title = "Learning to Order Things",
journal = "Journal of AI Research",
volume = 10,
pages = "243--270",
year = 1999,
annote =  "{\em Not exactly elicitation of a full preference function, but a
related problem of learning rank-ordering functions over sets of objects.]}"
}