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An Architecture for Rational Agents

Authors: John W. Lloyd and Tim D. Sears

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5051, Probabilistic, Logical and Relational Learning - Towards a Synthesis (2006)

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This paper is concerned with designing architectures for rational agents. In the proposed architecture, agents have belief bases that are theories in a multi-modal, higher-order logic. Belief bases can be modified by a belief acquisition algorithm that includes both symbolic, on-line learning and conventional knowledge base update as special cases. A method of partitioning the state space of the agent in two different ways leads to a Bayesian network and associated influence diagram for selecting actions. The resulting agent architecture exhibits a tight integration between logic, probability, and learning. This approach to agent architecture is illustrated by a user agent that is able to personalise its behaviour according to the user's interests and preferences.

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John W. Lloyd and Tim D. Sears. An Architecture for Rational Agents. In Probabilistic, Logical and Relational Learning - Towards a Synthesis. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5051, pp. 1-16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{lloyd_et_al:DagSemProc.05051.3,
  author =	{Lloyd, John W. and Sears, Tim D.},
  title =	{{An Architecture for Rational Agents}},
  booktitle =	{Probabilistic, Logical and Relational Learning - Towards a Synthesis},
  pages =	{1--16},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{5051},
  editor =	{Luc De Raedt and Thomas Dietterich and Lise Getoor and Stephen H. Muggleton},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05051.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4192},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.05051.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Rational agent, agent architecture, belief base, Bayesian networks}
}

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