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Multiple Agents
23.1 Interacting Agents
Except for our study of games in Chapter 12, our concern so far has been with a single agent reacting, planning, reasoning, and learning in an environment more or less compatible with its abilities and goals. I assumed that the pertinent effects of any other agents or processes could be either mitigated by appropriate agent reactions or ignored. Now I begin to consider how the actions of other agents can be anticipated in each agent’s own planning, and, indeed, how an agent can even affect the actions of other agents in the service of its own goals. To predict what another agent will do, we will need methods for one agent to model another; to affect what another agent will do, we will need methods for one ...
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