NDLI: Programming BOID-plan agents deliberating about conflicts among defeasible mental attitudes and plans

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Dastani, M. van der Torre, L.
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	In this paper we present an abstract agent programming language and its operational semantics which can be used to implement cognitive agents. This language consists of programming constructs to implement both the agent¿s mental attitudes - interpreted as data structures - as well as the agent¿s deliberation process. The agent can observe the environment, generate goal sets from desires, obligations, and intentions, selects goals, generate plans, and execute them. These actions can be combined in the deliberation language in a variety of ways to program the agent¿s deliberation process. At the level of abstraction of our deliberation language, goal generation and planning are both characterized as conflict resolution procedures. For goal generation, obligation, desire and intention rules can conflict when the corresponding goals are incompatible. For planning, partial plans can be incompatible. In our approach, the incompatibility of plans can be derived from more detailed data structures such as resources of the agents, but the conflict procedure can also be programmed directly by the agent programmer.
Starting Page	706
Ending Page	713
File Size	387747
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581138644
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-07-23
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Computer languages Process planning Character generation Permission Data structures Mechanical factors Specification languages Programming profession
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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