Deliberation and its Role in the Formation of Intentions [article]

Anand S. Rao, Michael P. Georgeff
2013 arXiv   pre-print
Deliberation plays an important role in the design of rational agents embedded in the real-world. In particular, deliberation leads to the formation of intentions, i.e., plans of action that the agent is committed to achieving. In this paper, we present a branching time possible-worlds model for representing and reasoning about, beliefs, goals, intentions, time, actions, probabilities, and payoffs. We compare this possible-worlds approach with the more traditional decision tree representation
more » ... d provide a transformation from decision trees to possible worlds. Finally, we illustrate how an agent can perform deliberation using a decision-tree representation and then use a possible-worlds model to form and reason about his intentions.
arXiv:1303.5742v1 fatcat:t6wmxcz265hxpiqgushnjzrpmm