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An Analysis of Three Puzzles in the Logic of Intention

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In this paper, we generalize our formal approach to modelling PRS agents away from PRS-specific assumptions to more general theories of rationality, while not losing the concreteness of the connection between an agent’s mental states and formal models, using three “puzzles” in the logic of intention to motivate our extended approach. We show how the theory can be used to represent solutions to the puzzles and draw out insights into how agent architectures may be extended to handle these more complex scenarios.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Wayne Wobcke

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  1. DisPRR, National ICT Australia Ltd, QLD, Australia

    Abdul Sattar

  2. School of Computing, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, 7005, Tasmania, Australia

    Byeong-ho Kang

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Wobcke, W. (2006). An Analysis of Three Puzzles in the Logic of Intention. In: Sattar, A., Kang, Bh. (eds) AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4304. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11941439_44

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