Extended Scenario Bundle Analysis: A Formal Framework for Strategic Scenario Modeling

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author Pitz, Thomas
Ferraz, Vinícius
author_facet Pitz, Thomas
Ferraz, Vinícius
contents Strategic crisis analysis needs representations that combine qualitative expert judgement, explicit interdependence, and auditable update rules without requiring fully specified payoffs or probabilities. Scenario Bundle Analysis (SBA), developed by Amos Perlmutter and Reinhard Selten, provides such a starting point, but the original formulation leaves several database, topology, and update interfaces implicit. This paper presents a formal refinement and extension of the original SBA framework, introducing a two-layer architecture that separates a static scenario database from a dynamic scenario tree system. The extended framework incorporates a richer attitude vocabulary: beliefs, desires, intentions, fears, and coalitional commitments, with expectations treated as doxastic attitudes. It also adds a domain/modifier layer for contextual framing, a topology on admissible scenario spaces\index{Scenario space}, typed assessment-state updates, and multi-criteria evaluation. Mathematical definitions are stated with sufficient precision to support computational implementation.
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spellingShingle Extended Scenario Bundle Analysis: A Formal Framework for Strategic Scenario Modeling
Pitz, Thomas
Ferraz, Vinícius
Theoretical Economics
Computer Science and Game Theory
91A35, 91A12, 91B06, 03B42, 91A18
I.2.4; I.2.11; H.4.2; F.4.1
Strategic crisis analysis needs representations that combine qualitative expert judgement, explicit interdependence, and auditable update rules without requiring fully specified payoffs or probabilities. Scenario Bundle Analysis (SBA), developed by Amos Perlmutter and Reinhard Selten, provides such a starting point, but the original formulation leaves several database, topology, and update interfaces implicit. This paper presents a formal refinement and extension of the original SBA framework, introducing a two-layer architecture that separates a static scenario database from a dynamic scenario tree system. The extended framework incorporates a richer attitude vocabulary: beliefs, desires, intentions, fears, and coalitional commitments, with expectations treated as doxastic attitudes. It also adds a domain/modifier layer for contextual framing, a topology on admissible scenario spaces\index{Scenario space}, typed assessment-state updates, and multi-criteria evaluation. Mathematical definitions are stated with sufficient precision to support computational implementation.
title Extended Scenario Bundle Analysis: A Formal Framework for Strategic Scenario Modeling
topic Theoretical Economics
Computer Science and Game Theory
91A35, 91A12, 91B06, 03B42, 91A18
I.2.4; I.2.11; H.4.2; F.4.1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13222