In the real world not all rules can be satisfied and we may consider them as preferences. For example, our June-2023 Challenge “Miss Manners” used well-tuned data with equal numbers of males and females at each party. Of course, real data is not like this, but we still want to help Miss Manners to seat all guests while sticking to her rules as much as possible. So, the seating arrangement “boy-girl-boy-girl and each guest has someone on the left or right with a common hobby” becomes not a Rule but a Preference. Let’s see how modern decision intelligence tools can address this advanced version of the notorious “Miss Manners” benchmark. Link