English

Rational coordination with no communication or conventions

Multiagent Systems 2021-03-18 v3 Artificial Intelligence Computer Science and Game Theory Social and Information Networks

Abstract

We study pure coordination games where in every outcome, all players have identical payoffs, 'win' or 'lose'. We identify and discuss a range of 'purely rational principles' guiding the reasoning of rational players in such games and analyze which classes of coordination games can be solved by such players with no preplay communication or conventions. We observe that it is highly nontrivial to delineate a boundary between purely rational principles and other decision methods, such as conventions, for solving such coordination games.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1706.07412,
  title  = {Rational coordination with no communication or conventions},
  author = {Valentin Goranko and Antti Kuusisto and Raine Rönnholm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.07412},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Preprint of a paper published in Journal of Logic and Computation, 30(6): 1183-1211, 2020

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