Name: Shekhar Bhattacharya

Decision Making Algorithm

An application of artificial intelligence in real world is decision making algorithms that are
inspired from the human cognitive property to make judgements based on different situations.
Decision making algorithms help individuals or organisations to take decisions and make
choices, usually based on ranking prioritizing or choosing from many options. To take the
decisions, decisions tables are used which are a concise visual representation with a complete
detail on which action to perform on what situation. The information stored in these tables are
stored in form of decision trees or as a snippet of a programming language with a series of if-
then-else and switch-case statements.
Modelling of Agent Cognition in Extensive Games via Artificial Neural Networks
This paper focuses on developing a framework that will have an artificial neural network
which will try implement the decision-making algorithm. The aim is to develop an agent with
self-cognition which will play the famous Go game with a moderately experienced human
player of that game. An algorithm was introduced that had a series of continued conditional
processes which used a training data of previous games and find the best possible move to
make that had a successful result in those games.
In the experiment done, a player was asked to play Go game, with an artificially developed
agent. Go is a strategic board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more
territory than the opponent. Each move that was supposed to be taken out very carefully so
that the opponent would not have any chance to surround the player. Now, to make the
decisions the artificial agent was provided with a backtracking algorithm as he decision
making algorithm in which the system must look back in the past moves and would draw the
new moves as per the success rate of the previous moves. Every time the plays makes his
move, the agent would backtrack the game, select a matching situation, see the result of the
decision taken at that point, and would commence the same if it was successful and would
take a risk to play a new move if the last move with same situation was a failure. The human
player on the other hand was not capable of such processing in such a short time also to be
kept in knowledge that the player was a moderately experienced player in that game.
As a result, the artificial agent with artificially developed decision-making process won the
game that suggests that there exist alternative ways to implement an artificial neural network
that is capable to make judgements. The question that was left unanswered was that the
backtracking algorithm used to make decisions didn’t had any risk analysis function in it that
would have managed the risk on making a new move by checking the probability of winning
of that move in other situations. If that would have been kept in check, the results could have
been better.

Source:
Chanjuan Liu, Enqiang Zhu, et al (2017). Modeling of Agent Cognition in Extensive Games
via Artificial Neural Networks. In proceeding of the 2017 IEEE 12th International
Conference on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2278-2285