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Department of Computer Science
The George Washington University 801 22nd Street NW, Suite 704 Washington DC 20052 Voice: (202) 994-7181 Fax: (202) 994-4875 E-mail: cs@gwu.edu Seminar/talk SummaryTitleNegotiations between Intelligent Agents: An exploration into the benefits of cooperation and the costs of competition. Date2009-11-09 6:10 PM SpeakerMark Happel, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory PlaceRoom 736 Academic Center, CS Conference Room ContentThe study of competitive and cooperative behaviors by humans, animals, and even intelligent automata has been pursued within a number of intellectual fields for many decades, but a number of recent developments have given new impetus to such studies of interactions within both natural and artificial societies. These new approaches have attempted to integrate the results from fields as disparate as political science, social psychology, microeconomics, and artificial intelligence to better understand why some collections of intelligent agents succeed at their assigned task while others fail. This colloquium presentation will focus on negotiation as a model of social interaction between decision agents, a model in which cooperation and competition can be seen as existing at opposite ends of a behavioral continuum. Important results from machine learning, game theory, behavioral economics, and social neuroscience will be reviewed, and a current research effort to develop a general computational model of negotiating behavior will be described. The talk will conclude with speculations on potential applications of this work. DetailAttachment: Mark Happel CS Colloquium.pdf Back |
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