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Investigating the Epistemic Unfolding of Multi-Player Games of Imperfect Information
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
2019 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Utredning av den epistemiska utvecklingen av flerspelarspel med ofullständig information (Swedish)
Abstract [en]

Solving multi-agent planning problems entails finding strategies that ensure that the agents achieve their cooperative objective. In practice, since the agents do not necessarily have perfect knowledge, these planning problems may involve imperfect information. For example, a robot agent may have a damaged or imperfect sensor, or one agent may be in another room and therefore cannot see what the other agents can. A useful model for these problems are cooperative multi-player games of imperfect information. In this paper, we investigate a novel construction known as epistemic unfolding. Epistemic unfolding translates multi-player games of imperfect information to single-player games of perfect information, for which strategy synthesis is much easier. Essentially, the idea of epistemic unfolding is to track the knowledge of the players throughout the duration of the game. Although epistemic unfolding is previously defined, to our knowledge it had neither been implemented nor properly visualized. In order to provide a foundation for future research, we implemented epistemic unfolding as a tool, visualized a set of epistemically unfolded games, and, finally, developed an intuitive understanding of epistemically unfolded games.

Abstract [sv]

Att lösa planeringsproblem med flera agenter medför att hitta strategier som garanterar att agenterna uppnår deras gemensamma mål. Eftersom agenterna inte nödvändigtvis har perfekt kunskap om spelets utveckling kommer dessa planeringsproblem innefatta ofullständig information. Till exempel kan en robotagent ha en skadad eller imperfekt sensor, eller kan någon agent befinna sig i ett annat rum och därmed inte se vad de andra kan. En lämplig modell för dessa problem är kooperativa flerspelarspel med ofullständig information. I denna text utreder vi en hittills outredd konstruktion känd som epistemisk utveckling. Idén bakom epistemisk utveckling är väsentligen att följa spelarnas kunskap under ett spel. Fast epistemisk utveckling redan är en definierad metod, har metoden inte till vår kunskap någonsin implementerats eller ordentligt visualiserats. För att förse en grund till vidare forskning implenterade vi epistemisk utveckling som ett verktyg, visualiserade vi de epistemiska utvecklingarna av en samling spel, och slutligen utarbetade vi en intuitiv förståelse för epistemiskt utvecklade spel.

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TRITA-EECS-EX ; 2019:329
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Computer and Information Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-255163OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-255163DiVA, id: diva2:1338771
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Computer and Systems Sciences
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Available from: 2019-07-29 Created: 2019-07-24 Last updated: 2022-06-26Bibliographically approved

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