Humanisme Menurut Niccolo Machiavelli

Opponent Modeling in Machiavelli

Opponent modeling is a technique in computer game-playing which attempts to create a model of an opponent’s strategy. This model can then be used to predict the opponent’s future actions. This paper attempts to apply opponent modeling to the commercial card game Machiavelli, a game containing imperfect information. Neural networks are used to build the models. These neural networks are trained ...

Machiavelli and the liberalism of fear

This article revisits the long-standing question of the relations between ethics and politics in Machiavelli's work, assessing its relevance to the 'liberalism of fear' in particular in the work of Judith Shklar, Bernard Williams and also John Dunn. The article considers ways in which Machiavelli has been a 'negative' resource for liberalism - for instance, as a presumed proponent of tyranny; b...

Dolev-Yao is no better than Machiavelli

Playing Chess with Machiavelli: Improving Interactive Entertainment with Explicit Strategies

Current interactive entertainment is not strategy-aware, in that it does not allow users to execute a wide range of real-world strategies in the context of the artificial environment, it does not recognize when users are trying to execute these strategies, and it does not include software opponents and partners that are capable of executing a varied range of strategies in response to user actio...

Coevolution of Deception and Preferences: Darwin and Nash Meet Machiavelli

We develop a framework in which individuals’ preferences co-evolve with their abilities to deceive others regarding their preferences and intentions. Specifically, individuals are characterized by a level of cognitive sophistication and by a subjective utility function. Increased cognition is costly, but higher level individuals are able to completely deceive lower level opponents about their p...