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Goals and Rational Action in the Situation Calculus - A Preliminary Report (1995)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Shapiro, Steven Lespérance, Yves Levesque, Hector J. |
| Description | In this paper, we use an extended version of the situation calculus to formalize goals and rational action. We then use these notions and a definition of ability (Lesp'erance et al. 1995b) to show that an agent that is acting rationally will achieve its goals when it is able to do so. 1 Introduction This paper describes work on rational action that arose from our efforts to create an explicit representation of the goals of agents in the situation calculus. The utility of an explicit representation of the goals of agents is evident when we consider domains with multiple interacting agents. In domains where agents are communicating and cooperating to perform a task, the ability to specify the knowledge and goals of the agents becomes useful in order to determine that the agents can perform their parts of the task and have the required commitment to see their parts to completion. Designers of agents can use this information to help predict the behaviors of the agents they create. The ag... |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1995-01-01 |
| Publisher Institution | In Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Rational Agency: Concepts, Theories, Models, and Applications |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Required Commitment Erance Et Al Rational Action Situation Calculus Preliminary Report Situation Calculus Explicit Representation Extended Version |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
