Incorporating Planning and Reasoning into a Self-Motivated, Communicative Agent

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10.2991/agi.2009.8How to use a DOI?

Abstract

Most work on self-motivated agents has focused on ac- quiring utility-optimizing mappings from states to ac- tions. But such mappings do not allow for explicit, rea- soned anticipation and planned achievement of future states and rewards, based on symbolic knowledge about the environment and about the consequences of the agent's own behavior. In essence, such agents can only behave reflexively, rather than reflectively. Conversely, planning and reasoning have been viewed within AI as geared towards satisfaction of explicitly specified user goals, without consideration of the long-range utility of the planner/reasoner's choices. We take a step here towards endowing a self-motivated, utility-optimizing agent with reasoning and planning abilities, and show that such an agent benefits both from its knowledge about itself and its environment, and from exploiting opportunities as it goes. Our simulated simple agent can cope with unanticipated environmental events and can communicate with the user or with other agents.

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© 2009, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Daphne Liu
AU  - Lenhart Schubert
PY  - 2009/06
DA  - 2009/06
TI  - Incorporating Planning and Reasoning into a Self-Motivated, Communicative Agent
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2009)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 34
EP  - 39
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/agi.2009.8
DO  - 10.2991/agi.2009.8
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