The social Ultimatum Game and adaptive agents

  • Authors:
  • Yu-Han Chang;Rajiv Maheswaran

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA;University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

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.