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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Uncertainty, Rationality, and Agency
  name:
    name part: Hoek, Wiebe van der.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 350 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book is about Rational Agents, which can be humans, players in a game, software programs or institutions. Typically, such agents are uncertain about the state of affairs or the state of other agents, and under this partial information they have to decide on which action to take next. This book collects chapters that give formal accounts not only of Uncertainty, Rationality and Agency, but also of their interaction: what are rational criteria to accept certain beliefs, or to modify them; how can degrees of beliefs guide an agent in making decisions; why distinguish between practical and epistemic rationality when agents try to coordinate; what must be common beliefs between agents about each other's rationality in order to act rationally themselves; can an agent assign probabilities to planned actions; how to formalise assumptions about a rational speaker in a conversation obeying Gricean maxims; how should a rational agent best represent the states, consequences, and acts that constitute the agent's rational decision problem? This volume should appeal to researchers addressing issues in artificial systems that have to gather information in order to obtain Knowledge, reason about it and then make a Rational decision about which Action to take next.
  table of contents: The No Probabilities for Acts-Principle -- A Logic for Inductive Probabilistic Reasoning -- Rationality as Conformity -- On The Structure of Rational Acceptance: Comments on Hawthorne and Bovens -- Logic and the Foundations of the Theory of Games and Decisions: Introduction -- A Simple Modal Logic for Belief Revision -- Prolegomena to Dynamic Logic for Belief Revision -- From Knowledge-Based Programs to Graded Belief-Based Programs, Part I: On-Line Reasoning -- Order-Independent Transformative Decision Rules -- A Pragmatic Solution for the Paradox of Free Choice Permission -- A Logical Framework for Convention.
  note: by Wiebe van der Hoek.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Economic theory
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
  classification: Q334-342
  classification: TJ210.2-211.495
  classification: 006.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4631-6
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