Intention Recognition, Commitment and Their Roles in the Evolution of Cooperation - From Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Evolutionary Game Theory Models

This original and timely monograph describes a unique self-contained excursion that reveals to the readers the roles of two basic cognitive abilities, i.e. intention recognition and arranging commitments, in the evolution of cooperative behavior. This book analyses intention recognition, an important ability that helps agents predict others' behavior, in its artificial intelligence and evolutionary computational modeling aspects, and proposes a novel intention recognition method. Furthermore, the book presents a new framework for intention-based decision making and illustrates several ways in which an ability to recognize intentions of others can enhance a decision making process. By employing the new intention recognition method and the tools of evolutionary game theory, this book introduces computational models demonstrating that intention recognition promotes the emergence of cooperation within populations of self-regarding agents. Finally, the book describes how commitment provides a pathway to the evolution of cooperative behavior, and how it further empowers intention recognition, thereby leading to a combined improved strategy.

List of contents

Introduction.- Intention Recognition Methods.- Intention Recognition, Commitment, and the Evolution of Cooperation.

Summary

This original and timely monograph describes a unique self-contained excursion that reveals to the readers the roles of two basic cognitive abilities, i.e. intention recognition and arranging commitments, in the evolution of cooperative behavior. This book analyses intention recognition, an important ability that helps agents predict others’ behavior, in its artificial intelligence and evolutionary computational modeling aspects, and proposes a novel intention recognition method. Furthermore, the book presents a new framework for intention-based decision making and illustrates several ways in which an ability to recognize intentions of others can enhance a decision making process. By employing the new intention recognition method and the tools of evolutionary game theory, this book introduces computational models demonstrating that intention recognition promotes the emergence of cooperation within populations of self-regarding agents. Finally, the book describes how commitment provides a pathway to the evolution of cooperative behavior, and how it further empowers intention recognition, thereby leading to a combined improved strategy.

Product details

• Authors: The Anh Han
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783642448706
• ISBN: 978-3-642-44870-6
• No. of pages: 167
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 10 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 302 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 167 p.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics; Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics; Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistomology and Rational Ethics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Spieltheorie, B, Kognitive Psychologie, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematik für Ingenieure, Kybernetik und Systemtheorie, engineering, complexity, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Philosophy of Mathematics, game theory, Cognition and cognitive psychology, cognitive psychology, Computational Intelligence, Cybernetics & systems theory, Applied Dynamical Systems, Computational complexity