Abstract
Choice in belief revision is presented as a fundamental aspect of rational interaction with the world. Communication as a type of rational interaction with a world comprised of other agents, is a development of this. Since worlds comprising other agents are open or uncertain, communicated information cannot be assumed as reliable and/or fully informed. Agents must decide whether as well as how to revise their views on recognition of another’s intention that they do so.
This autonomy over changes to cognitive states during communication determines the nature of cooperative interaction. There is no need for special axioms dictating ‘helpfulness’ and imposing cooperation as benevolence, for example. All that is needed is a strategic approach to communication in which cooperative dialogue is both determined by and determines the belief revisions between autonomous agents. A computational model on this basis is currently being developed at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. The benefit for a multi-agent environment, of action being thus jointly determined via cooperative interaction as a series of negotiated belief revisions, is that the action is then coherent with all that is believed yet distributed between the individual agents. Action is adaptive and flexible to the entire context.
Research supported by a SERC postdoctoral IT fellowship.
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Galliers, J.R. (1991). Cooperative interaction as strategic belief revision. In: Deen, S.M. (eds) CKBS ’90. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1831-2_8
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