Rational interaction: cooperation among intelligent agents
Thesis/Dissertation
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OSTI ID:5310977
The development of intelligent agents presents opportunities to exploit intelligent cooperation. Before this can occur, however, a framework must be built for reasoning about interactions. This dissertation describes such a framework, and explores strategies of interaction among intelligent agents. The formalism developed removes some serious restrictions that underlie previous research in distributed artificial intelligence, particularly the assumption that the interacting agents have identical or nonconflicting goals. The formalism allows each agent to make various assumptions about both the goals and the rationality of other agents. A hierarchy of rationality assumptions is presented, along with an analysis of the consequences that result when an agent believes a particularly level in the hierarchy describes other agents' rationality. In addition, the formalism presented allows the modeling of restrictions on communication and the modeling of binding promises among agents.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Univ., CA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5310977
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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