27.5.11

Disagreement Games

12:16 PM | Posted by Maj | Edit Post
Here's a page from the paper I wrote with Kasper (in LaTeX.  Click to enlarge.  Pretty, ain't it?)  If you'd like me to send you the PDF file, I'd be happy to, so just let me know. :)  Here's our abstract, in case you're interested:

When exchanging information, agents frequently come across matters on which they disagree with their fellow conversational participants. In what follows, we look at agents' resolution of such disagreements in terms of their moves in what we call a Disagreement Game.  More specifically, our paper sets the groundwork for modelling what takes place when agents with diverging beliefs sort out who should change his mind (or their minds) on the contentious matter under discussion. To this e ffect, in the first half of our paper, we motivate and define the notions which service our model: the (newly extended) Common Ground, the Authority Function and the mentioned Disagreement Game. The second half of the paper is devoted to discussion of some philosophical issues raised by the proposed model.

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