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IJCNN
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 days ago
A network model of rational versus irrational choices on a probability maximization task
─Humans have a drive to maximize knowledge of the world, yet decision making data also suggest a contrary drive to minimize cognitive effort using simplifying heuristics. The tra...
Daniel S. Levine, Leonid I. Perlovsky
HICSS
1999
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Voting before Discussing: Computer Voting as Social Communication
This paper presents a case study on the use of an alternative method of computer support to that normally used, one that uses voting as a tool for social rather than rational choi...
Brian Whitworth, Robert J. McQueen
CI
2006
94views more  CI 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Against Optimality: Logical Foundations for Decision-Theoretic Planning in Autonomous Agents
This paper investigates decision-theoretic planning in sophisticated autonomous agents operating in environments of real-world complexity. An example might be a planetary rover ex...
John L. Pollock
NIPS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Optimal Response Initiation: Why Recent Experience Matters
In most cognitive and motor tasks, speed-accuracy tradeoffs are observed: Individuals can respond slowly and accurately, or quickly yet be prone to errors. Control mechanisms gove...
Matt Jones, Michael C. Mozer, Sachiko Kinoshita
SYNTHESE
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
A resource-bounded agent addresses the newcomb problem
In the Newcomb problem, the standard arguments for taking either one box or both boxes adduce what seem to be relevant considerations, but they are not complete arguments, and att...
John L. Pollock