Believable Character Reasoning and a Measure of Self-Confidence for Autonomous Team Actors

This work presents a general-purpose character reasoning model intended for usage by autonomous team actors that are acting as believable characters (e.g., human team actors fall into this category). The idea is that selecting a cast of believable characters can predetermine a solution to an unexpected challenge that the team may be facing in a rescue mission. This approach in certain cases proves more efficient than an alternative approach based on rational decision making and planning, which ignores the question of character believability. This point is illustrated with a simple numerical example in a virtual world paradigm.