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Honesty, trust, and rational communication in multiagent semi-competitive environments.

Lam Ka Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-95). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Motivations --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Aims --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Contributions --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Outline --- p.5 / Chapter 2 --- Improved Recursive Modeling Method (RMM) --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1 --- An Illustrative Example --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2 --- Recursive Modeling Method (RMM) --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Payoff Matrices --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Infinite Recursive Hierarchy --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Choosing an Action with RMM --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3 --- Improved RMM --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Infinite Recursive Hierarchy --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- The Sub-matrix Operator --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Finite Recursive Hierarchy --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Choosing an Action --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3.5 --- Recursive Formulas --- p.21 / Chapter 2.4 --- Original RMM vs. Improved RMM --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Terminating the Infinite Hierarchy --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Resultant Payoff --- p.26 / Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.27 / Chapter 3 --- A Trust/Honesty Model --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Need for a Trust Model --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Motivation to Tell the Truth: Invitation to Cooperate --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Motivation to Tell a Lie: to Prevent Competition --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- "To Believe, or Not to Believe, that is the Question" --- p.30 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Trust Model --- p.31 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Impression --- p.31 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Reputation --- p.34 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Risk Attitude and Trustworthiness --- p.34 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Persuasiveness of a Message vs. Stubbornness of the Receiver --- p.37 / Chapter 3.3 --- The Need for an Honesty Model --- p.42 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- "To Lie, or Not to Lie, that is the Question" --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Problem of Living a Lie --- p.43 / Chapter 3.4 --- The Honesty Model --- p.44 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Impression --- p.44 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Reputation --- p.46 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Risk Attitude and Deceivability --- p.46 / Chapter 3.4.4 --- Temptation of Lying vs. Sincerity of the Sender --- p.47 / Chapter 3.5 --- Duality of the Trust/Honesty Model --- p.52 / Chapter 3.6 --- Performance of the Trust/Honesty Model --- p.52 / Chapter 3.7 --- Summary --- p.56 / Chapter 4 --- Adaptive Strategies --- p.57 / Chapter 4.1 --- Problem of Non-adaptive Agents --- p.57 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Adaptive Strategies --- p.60 / Chapter 4.3 --- Variations of Parameters --- p.61 / Chapter 4.4 --- Adaptive Agents vs. Non-adaptive Agents --- p.63 / Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.67 / Chapter 5 --- Related Work --- p.68 / Chapter 5.1 --- "Impression, Reputation and Trust" --- p.68 / Chapter 5.2 --- Theory of Honesty --- p.72 / Chapter 5.3 --- Summary --- p.72 / Chapter 6 --- Performance Analysis --- p.73 / Chapter 6.1 --- Simulation Settings --- p.73 / Chapter 6.2 --- Performance in Semi-competitive Environment --- p.75 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Performance of Receivers --- p.75 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Performance of Senders --- p.78 / Chapter 6.3 --- Performance when Interact with Strategic Senders --- p.80 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Senders Telling More Truths than Lies --- p.81 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Senders Telling More Lies than Truths --- p.83 / Chapter 6.4 --- Summary --- p.84 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.85 / Chapter 7.1 --- Conclusions --- p.85 / Chapter 7.2 --- Future Work --- p.87 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- Agent Manipulation --- p.87 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Algorithm for Solving Recursive Formulas --- p.88 / Chapter 7.2.3 --- Fuzzy Trust/Honesty Model --- p.88 / Chapter 7.2.4 --- Opinion from the Mass --- p.88 / Chapter 7.2.5 --- Network Application --- p.89 / Bibliography --- p.90

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_324997
Date January 2004
ContributorsLam, Ka Man., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, xi, 95 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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