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Reasoning about rationality and beliefs

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Abstract

In order to succeed, agents playing games must reason about the mechanics of the game, the strategies of other agents, other agents' reasoning about their strategies, and the rationality of agents. This paper presents a compact, natural and highly expressive language for reasoning about the beliefs and rationality of agents' decision-making processes in games. It extends a previous version of the language in a number of important ways. Agents can reason directly about the rationality of other agents; agents' beliefs are allowed to conflict with one another, including situations in which these beliefs form a cyclic structure; agents' play can deviate from the normative game theoretic solution. The paper formalizes the equilibria that holds with respect to agents' models and behavior, and provides algorithms for computing it. It also shows that the language is strictly more expressive than that of Bayesian games.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004
EditorsN.R. Jennings, C. Sierra, L. Sonenberg, M. Tambe
Pages774-781
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 27 Sep 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004 - New York, NY, United States
Duration: 19 Jul 200423 Jul 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004
Volume2

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York, NY
Period19/07/0423/07/04

Keywords

  • Decision-making under uncertainty
  • Game theory
  • Opponent modeling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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