Abstract: This paper extends previous work on FLBC (formal language for business communication) done with event semantics and disquotation theory. The paper focuses on the development of a tabular user interface for FLBC messages, emphasizing the Language--Action Perspective via speech act theory. We argue that the tabular representations are (a) expressively rich, (b) understandable for users, and (c) interpretable by automated reasoners. By way of demonstrating these claims, FLBC with event semantics and disquotation is extended to accommodate action logic and it is shown that the tabular interface continues to work.
Abstract: The received concept of strategic (game-theoretic) rationality is attended by a formidable list of paradoxes, anomalies, and empirical failures. This paper reviews three well-known and problematic decision contexts and diagnoses as a common source of difficulty the failure in the received view of rationality to adequately recognize risk-return tradeoffs. This diagnosis is then supported by computational experiments and analysis that demonstrate the effectiveness in strategic contexts of specific and plausible forms of decision making that do better justice to risk-return tradeoffs. The paper suggests that this kind of rationality, called an exploring rationality, be considered as an alternative to the received view.