Commentary: Rational decision making for a rare case

Rational Decision Making

RATIONAL DECISION MAKING: Choosing among alternatives in a way that “properly” accords with the preferences and beliefs of an individual decision maker or those of a group making a joint decision; in particular, the subject as developed in decision theory [16] (see RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY), decision analysis [24], GAME THEORY [33], political theory [20], psychology [14] (see DECISION MAKING), an...

Distributed Rational Decision Making

Automated negotiation systems with self interested agents are becoming increas ingly important One reason for this is the technology push of a growing standardized communication infrastructure Internet WWW NII EDI KQML FIPA Concor dia Voyager Odyssey Telescript Java etc over which separately designed agents belonging to di erent organizations can interact in an open environment in real time and...

Emotions in Rational Decision Making

Emotions play an important role in human decision making. This often has a beneficial effect, and so it is desirable to explore whether emotions can also play a role in agent decision making. This paper builds on several pieces of earlier work which resulted in a formalization of a model of emotions. We show how, in particular, the emotions of gratitude and displeasure and related emotions can ...

The Ethical Dangers of Rational Decision Making 1 The Ethical Dangers of Rational Decision Making

A rational decision making framework for inhibitory control

Intelligent agents are often faced with the need to choose actions with uncertain consequences, and to modify those actions according to ongoing sensory processing and changing task demands. The requisite ability to dynamically modify or cancel planned actions is known as inhibitory control in psychology. We formalize inhibitory control as a rational decision-making problem, and apply to it to ...