# Time-inconsistent planning

@article{Kleinberg2018TimeinconsistentP,
title={Time-inconsistent planning},
author={Jon M. Kleinberg and Sigal Oren},
journal={Communications of the ACM},
year={2018},
volume={61},
pages={99 - 107}
}
• Published 6 May 2014
• Computer Science
• Communications of the ACM
In many settings, people exhibit behavior that is inconsistent across time---we allocate a block of time to get work done and then procrastinate, or put effort into a project and then later fail to complete it. An active line of research in behavioral economics and related fields has developed and analyzed models for this type of time-inconsistent behavior. Here we propose a graph-theoretic model of tasks and goals, in which dependencies among actions are represented by a directed graph, and a…

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