Hypergame Theory for DTGT Agents

Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents

Volume

Papers from the 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

In this work, hypergame theory has been extended to record decision theoretic and game theoretic information in a single table, called the hypergame normal form. A twoplayer, zero-sum, single-stage hypergame has been provided in this paper to describe a decision-making situation. Hypergame expected utility is introduced as an embellished concept of expected utility that provides an estimate of the benefits and risks of this approach. Hypergame expected utility provides a preference criterion for selecting options or plans. This article does not address repeated play and learning, but does provide a new interpretation of the game theoretic concept of the Nash Equilibrium Mixed Strategy, which is often attributed to repeated play situations.