Anchored strategic reasoning

Strategic Reasoning in Games

Strategies are the basic objects of study in a game-theoretic model. The standard interpretation is that a strategy represents a player’s general plan of action. That is, a strategy for player i describes the action that player i will choose (allowing players to randomize their choices) whenever she is required to make a decision according to the rules of the game. Traditional game theory has f...

Reasoning in Strategic and Non-Strategic Interactions

Anchored Narratives in Reasoning about Evidence

This paper concerns the reasoning with stories, evidence and generalisations in a legal context. We will make some notions from the existing Anchored Narratives theory more clear by making use of two formal techniques from AI, namely causal-abductive reasoning and default-style argumentation. We will propose a combination of these two formalisms which solves some of the problems of the causal-a...

Transferable Strategic Meta-reasoning Models

OF THE DISSERTATION TRANSFERABLE STRATEGIC META-REASONING MODELS by MICHAEL WUNDER Dissertation Director: Matthew Stone How do strategic agents make decisions? For the first time, a confluence of advances in agent design, formation of massive online data sets of social behavior, and computational techniques have allowed for researchers to construct and learn much richer models than before. My c...

Reasoning about Natural Strategic Ability

In game theory, as well as in the semantics of game logics, a strategy can be represented by any function from states of the game to the agent’s actions. That makes sense from the mathematical point of view, but not necessarily in the context of human behavior. This is because humans are quite bad at executing complex plans, and also rather unlikely to come up with such plans in the first place...