Introduction

I'm interested in the problems involved with trying to get a computer agent to interact with other agents in a rational way. I'm not going to try to develop algorithms to interact with the game world, or communicate with other agents about the game world, instead I'm going to work on algorithms which can determine how to interact with other agents given a set of ways to interact with the game world and a method of communicating information about the game world. Here are some essays about general ideas I'm working from:

• Overview - Where I'm starting from, and some of my goals
• General social interactions - General ideas about social interactions
• Interactions in the context of a social group - I think that social groups are useful in the real world, for reasons which make the worth exploring in the context of a computer agent