Beliefs, plans, and perceived intentions in dynamic games

Strategies and interactive beliefs in dynamic games

Interactive epistemology in dynamic games studies forms of strategic reasoning like backward and forward induction by means of a formal representation of players’ beliefs about each other, conditional on each history. Work on this topic typically relies on epistemic models where states of the world specify both strategies and beliefs. Strategies are conjunctions of behavioral conditionals of th...

Forward Induction, Strong Beliefs, and Unawareness in Dynamic Psychological Games

We provide an epistemic model of dynamic psychological games with unawareness. To formulate epistemic statements, we extend Battigalli and Siniscalchi (1999)’s hierarchies of conditional beliefs by constructing a space of infinite (coherent) hierarchies for each possible awareness level. The interpretation is that only hierarchies of beliefs at the highest awareness level are full descriptions ...

Abduction of Plans and Intentions in Dialogues

Beliefs Desires Intentions

Confirming Changes in Beliefs and Intentions

Today’s spoken dialog systems rely on procedures such as confidence scores, machine learning approaches, etc. to understand changes in users’ beliefs and intentions. They depend on these scores to decide when to do an implicit or explicit confirmation of a value obtained to fill a required slot. These approaches work reasonably well for small domain-based systems and to make them work, several ...