Multi-agent artificial decision systems require a praxeology, or science of efficient action, that accommodates complex interactions between decision makers. Conventional praxeologies are built on the paradigm of rational choice, which comprises the two companion premises of totally-ordered preferences and individual rationality. Exclusive self-interest when negotiating, however, engenders a pe...

RPG is a game genre that focuses the cooperative interaction among players, as well as socialization and the improvement of communication skills. As these actions form the very context of these games, RPGs have an inherent level of decision-making that naturally occurs at all times throughout the course of the game. Those reasons led the idea to take advantage of the RPG genre to design a model...

A perfectly rational decision-maker chooses the best action with the highest utility gain from a set of possible actions. The optimality principles that describe such decision processes do not take into account the computational costs of finding the optimal action. Bounded rational decision-making addresses this problem by specifically trading off information-processing costs and expected utili...

Sequential Decision Making in Non-stochastic Environments

We describe theoretical bounds and a practical algorithm for teaching a model by demonstration in a sequential decision making environment. Unlike previous efforts that have optimized learners that watch a teacher demonstrate a static policy, we focus on the teacher as a decision maker who can dynamically choose different policies to teach different parts of the environment. We develop several ...

In this paper we describe our observations about information handling in the complex and dynamic decision making environment of ambulance control, more formally known as Emergency Medical Dispatch. Our findings suggest that the information handling capacity of individual dispatchers and of the system as a whole is affected by the difficulties they face in handling information, and this is exhib...

The aim of this paper is to understand the process by which consumers’ perception of online VR environments impact their purchase decision. Combining factor and process models, we propose a transaction framework suggestive of consumer decision-making in VR e-commerce environments. The framework is informed by theory to be validated by an experimental design to understand the antecedents and con...

My PhD research is focused on Web Service Composition through the use of AI planning techniques, considering the domain as an inherently non-deterministic one. The main goal of my research is to build a system in which an end user will be able to search for suitable web services, add new ones, and create new composite ones either manually or automatically. As a practical example of the usefulne...