Agent programming with temporally extended goals

Koen V. Hindriks, Wiebe Van Der Hoek, M. Birna Van Riemsdijk

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Abstract

In planning as well as in other areas, temporal logic has been used to specify so-called temporally extended goals. Temporally extended goals refer to desirable sequences of states instead of a set of desirable final states as the traditional notion of achievement goal does, and provide for more variety in the types of goals allowed. In this paper, we show how temporally extended goals can be integrated into the agent programming language Goal. The result is that Goal agents may now have both beliefs about the future as well as have temporally extended goals. We propose a new decision making mechanism that takes temporally extended goals into account, and investigate properties of this framework. Categories and Subject Descriptors 1.2.11 [Artificial Intelligence]: Distributed Artificial Intelligence- Intelligent agents, languages and structures; 1.2.5 [Artificial Intelligence]: Programming Languages and Software General Terms Theory, Languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2009, AAMAS 2009
PublisherInternational Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
Pages110-117
Number of pages8
Volume1
ISBN (Print)9781615673346
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2009, AAMAS 2009 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 10 May 200915 May 2009

Conference

Conference8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2009, AAMAS 2009
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period10/05/0915/05/09

Keywords

  • Agent programming
  • Formal semantics
  • Goals
  • Temporal logic

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