Uncertainty, Rationality, and Agency (eBook)

Wiebe van der Hoek (Herausgeber)

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2006 | 2006
X, 350 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-4631-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume concerns Rational Agents - humans, players in a game, software or institutions - which must decide the proper next action in an atmosphere of partial information and uncertainty. The book collects formal accounts of Uncertainty, Rationality and Agency, and also of their interaction. It will benefit researchers in artificial systems which must gather information, reason about it and then make a rational decision on which action to take.

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This book collects all the papers that appeared in 2005 in Kno- edge, Rationality and Action (KRA), a journal published as a s- cial section of Synthese, which addresses contemporary issues in epistemic logic, belief revision, game and decision theory, rational agency, planning and theories of action. As such, the special section appeals to researchers from Computer Science, Game Theory, Ar- ?cial Intelligence, Philosophy, Knowledge Representation, Logic and Agents, addressing issues in arti?cial systems that have to gather information, reason about it and then make a sensible decision about what to do next. It will be clear already from the contents pages, that this book indeed re?ects the core of KRA: the papers in this volume address degrees of belief or certainty, and rational agency. The latter has several manifestations: often constraints on the agent's belief, behaviour or decision making. Moreover, this book shows that KRA indeed represents a 'loop' in the behaviour of the agent: after having made a decision, the life of the agent does not end, rather, it will do some sensing or collect otherwise the outcome of its decision, to update its beliefs or knowledge accordingly and make up its mind about the next decision task.

Inhalt

Foreword; W. van der Hoek.- The No Probabilities for Acts-Principle; M. Ledwig.- A Logic for Inductive Probabilistic Reasoning; M. Jaeger.- Rationality as Conformity; H. Hosni and J. Paris.- On the Structure of Rational Acceptance: Comments on Hawthorne and Bovens; G.R. Wheeler.- Logic and the Foundations of the Theory of Games and Decisions; G. Bonanno.- A Simple Modal Logic for Belief Revision; G. Bonanno.- Prolegomena to Dynamic Logic for Belief Revision; H.P. van Ditmarsch.- From Knowledge-Based Programs to Graded Belief-Based Programs, Part I: On-Line Reasoning; N. Laverny and J. Lang.- Order-Independent Transformative Decision Rules; M. Peterson and S.O. Hansson.- A Pragmatic Solution for the Paradox of Free Choice Permission; K. Schulz.- A Logical Framework for Convention; G. Sillari.- Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2006
• Zusatzinfo: X, 350 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Agents • Knowledge • Logic • Modal Logic • Probabilistic Reasoning • Uncertainty
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-4631-6 / 1402046316
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-4631-5 / 9781402046315