What is a Joint Goal? Games with Beliefs and Defeasible Desires

TL;DR

This paper introduces a qualitative decision and game theory framework based on belief and desire rules, demonstrating that agents act as if maximizing joint goals.

Contribution

It presents a novel belief-desire rule-based approach to decision-making and game theory, highlighting how agents coordinate towards joint goals.

Findings

Agents behave as if they maximize joint goals

The framework models decision-making with belief and desire rules

Demonstrates coordination in multi-agent systems

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a qualitative decision and game theory based on belief (B) and desire (D) rules. We show that a group of agents acts as if it is maximizing achieved joint goals.