van der Hoek Information, Interaction, and Agency

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4020-4094-8
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

Contemporary epistemological and cognitive studies, as well as recent trends in computer science and game theory have revealed an increasingly important and intimate relationship between , , and .

Agents perform actions based on the available information and in the presence of other interacting agents. From this perspective neatly ties together classical themes like rationality, decision-making and belief revision with games, strategies and learning in a multi-agent setting.

Unified by the central notions , , and , the essays in this volume provide refreshing methodological perspectives on belief revision, dynamic epistemic logic, von Neumann games, and evolutionary game theory; all of which in turn are central approaches to understanding our own rationality and that of other agents.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

van der Hoek, Wiebe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Logics for Epistemic Programs.- A Counterexample to Six Fundamental Principles of Belief Formation.- Comparing Semantics of Logics for Multi-Agent Systems.- A Characterization of Von Neumann Games in Terms of Memory.- An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Perspective on Learning in Mult-Agent Systems.- Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles.- Nonmonotonic Inferences and Neural Networks.- A Model of Jury Decisions Where All Jurors Have the Same Evidence.- A Sat-Based Approach to Unbounded Model Checking for Alternating-Time Temporal Epistemic Logic.- Update Semantics of Security Protocols.