How to Explain Behavior: Author Precis

How to Explain Mistakes

Usually we teach formal methods relying for a large part on one kind of reasoning technique about a formal model. For instance, we either use formal proof or we use model-checking. It would appear that it is already hard enough to learn one technique and having to cope with two puts just another burden on the students. This is not our experience. Especially model-checking is easily used to comp...

how to define an author? awareness of authorship criteria

Fast, frugal, and rational: How rational norms explain behavior

Much research on judgment and decision making has focussed on the adequacy of classical rationality as a description of human reasoning. But more recently it has been argued that classical rationality should also be rejected even as normative standards for human reasoning. For example, Gigerenzer and Goldstein (1996) and Gigerenzer and Todd (1999a) argue that reasoning involves ‘‘fast and fruga...

How people explain behavior: a new theoretical framework.

This article presents a theoretical framework of how people explain behavior. The framework, based on the folk concept of intentionality, distinguishes two major modes of explanation-reason explanation and cause explanation-as well as two minor modes and identifies conditions under which they occur. Three studies provide empirical support for these distinctions. As part of the framework, a deta...

How Experts Explain Strategic Behavior During Real-Time Strategy Games

Real-time strategy games, such as Wargus, are examples of complex learning and planning domains that present unique challenges to AI and machine learning. These games usually comprise a large number of states, actions, resources, and decisions that a player needs to take into consideration, while, at the same time, the current game situation is influenced and modified by opponents. With the dri...