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Governatori, Guido ; Rotolo, Antonino

BIO Logical Agents: Norms, Beliefs, Intentions in Defeasible Logic

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Abstract

In this paper we follow the BOID (Belief, Obligation, Intention, Desire) architecture to describe agents and agent types in Defeasible Logic. We argue, in particular, that the introduction of obligations can provide a new reading of the concepts of intention and intentionality. Then we examine the notion of social agent (i.e., an agent where obligations prevail over intentions) and discuss some computational and philosophical issues related to it. We show that the notion of social agent either requires more complex computations or has some philosophical drawbacks.

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@InProceedings{governatori_et_al:DSP:2007:912,
  author =	{Guido Governatori and Antonino Rotolo},
  title =	{BIO Logical Agents: Norms, Beliefs, Intentions in Defeasible Logic},
  booktitle =	{Normative Multi-agent Systems},
  year =	{2007},
  editor =	{Guido Boella and Leon van der Torre and Harko Verhagen },
  number =	{07122},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  publisher =	{Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum f{\"u}r Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/912},
  annote =	{Keywords: Social Agents, Defeasible Logic, Complexity of Agents}
}

Keywords: Social Agents, Defeasible Logic, Complexity of Agents
Seminar: 07122 - Normative Multi-agent Systems
Issue Date: 2007
Date of publication: 12.03.2007

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