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Is state-dependent valuation more adaptive than simpler rules?
Joseph Y. Halpern, Lior Seeman
McNamara, Trimmer, and Houston (2012) claim to provide an explanation of certain systematic deviations from rational behavior using a mechanism that could arise through natural sel…
Translucent Players: Explaining Cooperative Behavior in Social Dilemmas
Valerio Capraro, Joseph Y. Halpern
In the last few decades, numerous experiments have shown that humans do not always behave so as to maximize their material payoff. Cooperative behavior when non-cooperation is a do…
Bayesian Games with Intentions
Adam Bjorndahl, Joseph Y. Halpern, Rafael Pass
We show that standard Bayesian games cannot represent the full spectrum of belief-dependent preferences. However, by introducing a fundamental distinction between intended and actu…
Characterizing Solution Concepts in Terms of Common Knowledge of Rationality
Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses
Characterizations of Nash equilibrium, correlated equilibrium, and rationalizability in terms of common knowledge of rationality are well known. Analogous characterizations of sequ…
Decentralised Norm Monitoring in Open Multi-Agent Systems
Natasha Alechina, Joseph Y. Halpern, Ian A. Kash +1
We consider the problem of detecting norm violations in open multi-agent systems (MAS). We show how, using ideas from scrip systems, we can design mechanisms where the agents compr…