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Chunking Tasks for Present-Biased Agents
Joe Halpern, Aditya Saraf
Everyone puts things off sometimes. How can we combat this tendency to procrastinate? A well-known technique used by instructors is to break up a large project into more manageable…
Strategic Play By Resource-Bounded Agents in Security Games
Xinming Liu, Joseph Y. Halpern
Many studies have shown that humans are "predictably irrational": they do not act in a fully rational way, but their deviations from rational behavior are quite systematic. Our goa…
Causal Models with Constraints
Sander Beckers, Joseph Y. Halpern, Christopher Hitchcock
Causal models have proven extremely useful in offering formal representations of causal relationships between a set of variables. Yet in many situations, there are non-causal relat…
A Causal Analysis of Harm
Sander Beckers, Hana Chockler, Joseph Y. Halpern
As autonomous systems rapidly become ubiquitous, there is a growing need for a legal and regulatory framework to address when and how such a system harms someone. There have been s…
Quantifying Harm
Sander Beckers, Hana Chockler, Joseph Y. Halpern
In earlier work we defined a qualitative notion of harm: either harm is caused, or it is not. For practical applications, we often need to quantify harm; for example, we may want t…
From Outcome-Based to Language-Based Preferences
Valerio Capraro, Joseph Y. Halpern, Matjaz Perc
We review the literature on models that try to explain human behavior in social interactions described by normal-form games with monetary payoffs. We start by covering social and m…