Intentions in Equilibrium

John Grant; Sarit Kraus; Michael Wooldridge

Intentions in Equilibrium

John Grant, Sarit Kraus, Michael Wooldridge

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Intentions have been widely studied in AI, both in the context of decision-making within individual agents and in multiagent systems. Work on intentions in multi-agent systems has focused on joint intention models, which characterise the mental state of agents with a shared goal engaged in teamwork. In the absence of shared goals, however, intentions play another crucial role in multi-agent activity: they provide a basis around which agents can mutually coordinate activities. Models based on shared goals do not attempt to account for or explain this role of intentions. In this paper, we present a formal model of multi-agent systems in which belief-desire-intention agents choose their intentions taking into account the intentions of others. To understand rational mental states in such a setting, we formally define and investigate notions of multi-agent intention equilibrium, which are related to equilibrium concepts in game theory.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010
Publisher	AAAI press
Pages	786-791
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781577354642
State	Published - 15 Jul 2010
Event	24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010 - Atlanta, United States Duration: 11 Jul 2010 → 15 Jul 2010

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Name	Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010

Conference

Conference	24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta
Period	11/07/10 → 15/07/10

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© 2010, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

Funding

∗This research is based upon work supported in part by NSF grant 0705587 and under ISF grant 1357/07. Copyright ©c 2010, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation	0705587
Iowa Science Foundation	1357/07

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