The social Ultimatum Game and adaptive agents

The Ultimatum Game is a key exemplar that shows how human play often deviates from "rational" strategies suggested by game-theoretic analysis. One explanation is that humans cannot put aside the assumption of being in a multi-player multi-round environment that they are accustomed to in the real world. We introduce the Social Ultimatum Game (SUG), where players can choose their partner among a society of agents, and engage in repeated interactions of the Ultimatum Game. We develop mathematical models of human play that include "irrational" concepts such as fairness and adaptation to the expectations of the society. We will display a system where people can play SUG against a mixed system of other humans and autonomous agents based on our mathematical models.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

• Publication date

  2011-05-02

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Economics, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.65109/tixi3340
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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