Uncertainty, Rationality, and Agency (Paperback, 2006 ed.)

This book is about Rational Agents, which can be humans, players in a game, software programs or institutions. Typically, such agents are uncertain about the state of affairs or the state of other agents, and under this partial information they have to decide on which action to take next. This book collects chapters that give formal accounts not only of Uncertainty, Rationality and Agency, but also of their interaction: what are rational criteria to accept certain beliefs, or to modify them; how can degrees of beliefs guide an agent in making decisions; why distinguish between practical and epistemic rationality when agents try to coordinate; what must be common beliefs between agents about each other's rationality in order to act rationally themselves; can an agent assign probabilities to planned actions; how to formalise assumptions about a rational speaker in a conversation obeying Gricean maxims; etc.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Wiebe van der Hoek
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	350
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-4630-8
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General
LSN:	1-4020-4630-8
Barcode:	9781402046308

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