A Formal Framework for Designing Boundedly Rational Agents

Andreas Brännström, Timotheus Kampik, Ramon Ruiz-Dolz, Joaquin Taverner

2022

Abstract

Notions of rationality and bounded rationality play important roles in research on the design and implementation of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, for example in the context of instilling socially intelligent behavior into computing systems. However, the (formal) connection between artificial intelligence research on the design and implementation of boundedly rational and socially intelligent agents on the one hand and formal economic rationality – i.e., choice with clear and consistent preferences – or instrumental rationality – i.e., the maximization of a performance measure given an agent’s knowledge – on the other hand is weak. In this paper we address this shortcoming by introducing a formal framework for designing boundedly rational agents that systematically relax instrumental rationality, and we propose a system architecture for implementing such agents.

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in Harvard Style

Brännström A., Kampik T., Ruiz-Dolz R. and Taverner J. (2022). A Formal Framework for Designing Boundedly Rational Agents. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-547-0, pages 705-714. DOI: 10.5220/0010895500003116


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart22,
author={Andreas Brännström and Timotheus Kampik and Ramon Ruiz-Dolz and Joaquin Taverner},
title={A Formal Framework for Designing Boundedly Rational Agents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,},
year={2022},
pages={705-714},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010895500003116},
isbn={978-989-758-547-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART,
TI - A Formal Framework for Designing Boundedly Rational Agents
SN - 978-989-758-547-0
AU - Brännström A.
AU - Kampik T.
AU - Ruiz-Dolz R.
AU - Taverner J.
PY - 2022
SP - 705
EP - 714
DO - 10.5220/0010895500003116