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The rationale behind the concept of goal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2016

GUIDO GOVERNATORI ,
FRANCESCO OLIVIERI ,
SIMONE SCANNAPIECO ,
ANTONINO ROTOLO  and
MATTEO CRISTANI
GUIDO GOVERNATORI
Affiliation:
Data61, CSIRO, NICTA, Australia (e-mail: [email protected])
FRANCESCO OLIVIERI
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy (e-mail: [email protected])
SIMONE SCANNAPIECO
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy (e-mail: [email protected])
ANTONINO ROTOLO
Affiliation:
CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (e-mail: [email protected])
MATTEO CRISTANI
Affiliation:
e-mail [email protected]
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Abstract

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The paper proposes a fresh look at the concept of goal and advances that motivational attitudes like desire, goal and intention are just facets of the broader notion of (acceptable) outcome. We propose to encode the preferences of an agent as sequences of “alternative acceptable outcomes”. We then study how the agent's beliefs and norms can be used to filter the mental attitudes out of the sequences of alternative acceptable outcomes. Finally, we formalise such intuitions in a novel Modal Defeasible Logic and we prove that the resulting formalisation is computationally feasible.

Keywords

AgentsDefeasible logicDesiresintentionsGoalsObligations
Type
Regular Papers
Information
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 16 , Special Issue 3: Special Issue on the International Web Rule Symposia 2012-2014 , May 2016 , pp. 296 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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