Title
An argumentation-based approach for identifying and dealing with incompatibilities among procedural goals.
Abstract
During the first step of practical reasoning, i.e. deliberation, an intelligent agent generates a set of pursuable goals and then selects which of them he commits to achieve. An intelligent agent may in general generate multiple pursuable goals, which may be incompatible among them. In this paper, we focus on the definition, identification and resolution of these incompatibilities. The suggested approach considers the three forms of incompatibility introduced by Castelfranchi and Paglieri, namely the terminal incompatibility, the instrumental or resources incompatibility and the superfluity. We characterize computationally these forms of incompatibility by means of arguments that represent the plans that allow an agent to achieve his goals. Thus, the incompatibility among goals is defined based on the conflicts among their plans, which are represented by means of attacks in an argumentation framework. We also work on the problem of goals selection; we propose to use abstract argumentation theory to deal with this problem, i.e. by applying argumentation semantics. We use a modified version of the “cleaner world” scenario in order to illustrate the performance of our proposal.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.ijar.2018.10.015
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Keywords
Field
DocType
Intelligent agents,Goals conflicts,Argumentation,Goals incompatibility,Goals selection,Practical reasoning
Deliberation,Argumentation framework,Intelligent agent,Practical reason,Argumentation theory,Artificial intelligence,Argumentation semantics,Machine learning,Management science,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
105
1
0888-613X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
37
Authors
5