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Rational Communication in Multi-Agent Environments - Piotr Gmytrasiewicz And (2000) (7 citations) (Correct)
....DG FG 86NE37969, by the National Science Foundation under grant IRI 9015423, by the PYI award IRI 9158473, by ONR grant N00014 95 1 0775 and by the National Science Foundation CAREER award IRI 9702132. 1 1 Introduction This paper follows the tradition of cognitive science and related fields [5, 11, 30], according to which the fundamental function of communication is to confer some advantage to the speaker by influencing what the hearer(s) knows and intends to do. The contribution of this paper is to propose a well defined mechanism that realizes this function in autonomous, self interested ....
....and about other agents, their beliefs about others beliefs, and so on. The need for considering the nestedness of the agents beliefs for communication has been widely recognized in the linguistics and AI literatures before [2, 4, 6, 8, 18, 19, 31, 35, 38, 39] while research in cognitive science [11, 47] yielded evidence of nested mental models used by humans for purpose of communication. Clearly, without a model of the other agents mental states it would be impossible to properly assess the impact of a communicative act. We should note that the RMM representation is not intended as a general ....
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Robin Dunbar. Theory of mind and the evolution of language. In James R. Hurford, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, and Chris Knight, editors, Approaches to the Evolution of Language, pages 92--110. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Towards Automating the Evolution of Linguistic Competence.. - Gmytrasiewicz, Gopal (2000) (Correct)
....(speaker) producing a signal that, when responded to by another agent (hearer) confers some advantage (or the statistical probability of it) to the speaker. This definition paraphrases the definition in [5] and is supported by numerous approaches to study of communication in cognitive science [6, 16]. It says that the communicative act must be purposeful and beneficial to the speaker. Given the framework of above, it can be readily interpreted as a condition that a communicative act lead to an increase of the speaker s assessment of it s own expected utility. Further, is allows us to treat ....
....utility) and execute the best one. To do that the speaker needs to represent the effects of a communicative act on the hearer s mental state. The fact that models of other agents mental states are necessary for effective communication is well known in the cognitive science literature (see [6] and references therein) Cognitive scientists were able to confirm the role and importance of mental models, including nested models, of other agents, and how the ability to form and process these models sets humans apart from other primates 1 , and we used them in our previ 1 For example, ....
R. Dunbar. Theory of mind and the evolution of language. In J. R. Hurford, M. Studdert-Kennedy, and C. Knight, editors, Approaches to the Evolution of Language, pages 92--110. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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