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.
@InProceedings{governatori_et_al:DagSemProc.07122.8, author = {Governatori, Guido and Rotolo, Antonino}, title = {{BIO Logical Agents: Norms, Beliefs, Intentions in Defeasible Logic}}, booktitle = {Normative Multi-agent Systems}, pages = {1--34}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2007}, volume = {7122}, editor = {Guido Boella and Leon van der Torre and Harko Verhagen}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07122.8}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-9123}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.07122.8}, annote = {Keywords: Social Agents, Defeasible Logic, Complexity of Agents} }
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