Acting irrationally to improve performance in stochastic worlds
Conference paper
Belavkin, R. 2005. Acting irrationally to improve performance in stochastic worlds. Bramer, M., Coenen, F. and Allen, T. (ed.) 25th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge, UK 2005 Springer. pp. 305-316 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-226-3_23
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | Acting irrationally to improve performance in stochastic worlds |
Authors | Belavkin, R. |
Abstract | Despite many theories and alogorithms for decision-making, after estimating the utility function the choice is usually made by maximising its expected value (the max EU principle). This traditional and 'rational' conclusion of the decision-making process is compared in this paper with several 'irrational' techniques that make choice in Monte-Carlo fashion. The comparison is made by evaluating the performance of simple decision-theoretic agents in stochastic environments. It is shown that not only the random choice strategies can achieve performance comparable to the max EU method, but under certain conditions the Monte-Carlo choice methods perform almost two times better than the max EU. The paper concludes by quoting evidence from recent cognitive modelling works as well as the famous decision-making paradoxes. |
Research Group | Artificial Intelligence group |
Conference | 25th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence |
Page range | 305-316 |
Proceedings Title | Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXII: Proceedingas of AI-2005, the Twenty-fifth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence |
Editors | Bramer, M., Coenen, F. and Allen, T. |
ISBN | |
Paperback | 9781846282256 |
Electronic | 9781846282263 |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication dates | |
16 Dec 2005 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 08 Sep 2008 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-226-3_23 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84881416556 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000236860400023 |
Web address (URL) of conference proceedings | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-226-3 |
Language | English |
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