Honesty, trust, and rational communication in multiagent semi-competitive environments.

Lam Ka Man.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-95).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Motivations --- p.3Chapter 1.2 --- Aims --- p.4Chapter 1.3 --- Contributions --- p.4Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Outline --- p.5Chapter 2 --- Improved Recursive Modeling Method (RMM) --- p.7Chapter 2.1 --- An Illustrative Example --- p.7Chapter 2.2 --- Recursive Modeling Method (RMM) --- p.10Chapter 2.2.1 --- Payoff Matrices --- p.10Chapter 2.2.2 --- Infinite Recursive Hierarchy --- p.12Chapter 2.2.3 --- Choosing an Action with RMM --- p.13Chapter 2.3 --- Improved RMM --- p.15Chapter 2.3.1 --- Infinite Recursive Hierarchy --- p.15Chapter 2.3.2 --- The Sub-matrix Operator --- p.15Chapter 2.3.3 --- Finite Recursive Hierarchy --- p.17Chapter 2.3.4 --- Choosing an Action --- p.19Chapter 2.3.5 --- Recursive Formulas --- p.21Chapter 2.4 --- Original RMM vs. Improved RMM --- p.25Chapter 2.4.1 --- Terminating the Infinite Hierarchy --- p.25Chapter 2.4.2 --- Resultant Payoff --- p.26Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.27Chapter 3 --- A Trust/Honesty Model --- p.28Chapter 3.1 --- The Need for a Trust Model --- p.28Chapter 3.1.1 --- Motivation to Tell the Truth: Invitation to Cooperate --- p.29Chapter 3.1.2 --- Motivation to Tell a Lie: to Prevent Competition --- p.29Chapter 3.1.3 --- "To Believe, or Not to Believe, that is the Question" --- p.30Chapter 3.2 --- The Trust Model --- p.31Chapter 3.2.1 --- Impression --- p.31Chapter 3.2.2 --- Reputation --- p.34Chapter 3.2.3 --- Risk Attitude and Trustworthiness --- p.34Chapter 3.2.4 --- Persuasiveness of a Message vs. Stubbornness of the Receiver --- p.37Chapter 3.3 --- The Need for an Honesty Model --- p.42Chapter 3.3.1 --- "To Lie, or Not to Lie, that is the Question" --- p.43Chapter 3.3.2 --- Problem of Living a Lie --- p.43Chapter 3.4 --- The Honesty Model --- p.44Chapter 3.4.1 --- Impression --- p.44Chapter 3.4.2 --- Reputation --- p.46Chapter 3.4.3 --- Risk Attitude and Deceivability --- p.46Chapter 3.4.4 --- Temptation of Lying vs. Sincerity of the Sender --- p.47Chapter 3.5 --- Duality of the Trust/Honesty Model --- p.52Chapter 3.6 --- Performance of the Trust/Honesty Model --- p.52Chapter 3.7 --- Summary --- p.56Chapter 4 --- Adaptive Strategies --- p.57Chapter 4.1 --- Problem of Non-adaptive Agents --- p.57Chapter 4.2 --- The Adaptive Strategies --- p.60Chapter 4.3 --- Variations of Parameters --- p.61Chapter 4.4 --- Adaptive Agents vs. Non-adaptive Agents --- p.63Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.67Chapter 5 --- Related Work --- p.68Chapter 5.1 --- "Impression, Reputation and Trust" --- p.68Chapter 5.2 --- Theory of Honesty --- p.72Chapter 5.3 --- Summary --- p.72Chapter 6 --- Performance Analysis --- p.73Chapter 6.1 --- Simulation Settings --- p.73Chapter 6.2 --- Performance in Semi-competitive Environment --- p.75Chapter 6.2.1 --- Performance of Receivers --- p.75Chapter 6.2.2 --- Performance of Senders --- p.78Chapter 6.3 --- Performance when Interact with Strategic Senders --- p.80Chapter 6.3.1 --- Senders Telling More Truths than Lies --- p.81Chapter 6.3.2 --- Senders Telling More Lies than Truths --- p.83Chapter 6.4 --- Summary --- p.84Chapter 7 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.85Chapter 7.1 --- Conclusions --- p.85Chapter 7.2 --- Future Work --- p.87Chapter 7.2.1 --- Agent Manipulation --- p.87Chapter 7.2.2 --- Algorithm for Solving Recursive Formulas --- p.88Chapter 7.2.3 --- Fuzzy Trust/Honesty Model --- p.88Chapter 7.2.4 --- Opinion from the Mass --- p.88Chapter 7.2.5 --- Network Application --- p.89Bibliography --- p.9