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Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems table of contents

Hakodate, Japan

SESSION: Agent programming table of contents

Pages: 1285 - 1287

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-303-4

Authors

Mehdi Dastani	Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
M. Birna van Riemsdijk	Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
John-Jules Ch. Meyer	Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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IFMAS : The International Foundation for Multiagent Systems
ATAL : The International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper discusses three types of declarative goals and motivates their integration in logic-based agent-oriented programming languages. These goal types are perform goals, achieve goals, and maintain goals. A goal type is considered as a specific agent attitude towards goals. The semantics for each goal type is explained from an operational perspective. It is argued that the suggested semantics of the goal types ensure some desirable and expected properties.

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