Title
Efficient multi-agent epistemic planning: Teaching planners about nested belief
Abstract
Many AI applications involve the interaction of multiple autonomous agents, requiring those agents to reason about their own beliefs, as well as those of other agents. However, planning involving nested beliefs is known to be computationally challenging. In this work, we address the task of synthesizing plans that necessitate reasoning about the beliefs of other agents. We plan from the perspective of a single agent with the potential for goals and actions that involve nested beliefs, non-homogeneous agents, co-present observations, and the ability for one agent to reason as if it were another. We formally characterize our notion of planning with nested belief, and subsequently demonstrate how to automatically convert such problems into problems that appeal to classical planning technology for solving efficiently. Our approach represents an important step towards applying the well-established field of automated planning to the challenging task of planning involving nested beliefs of multiple agents.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.artint.2021.103605
Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Automated planning,Epistemic planning,Knowledge and belief
Journal
302
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0004-3702
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian J. Muise117622.68
Vaishak Belle215424.68
Paolo Felli330.78
Sheila A. Mcilraith44577491.08
Tim Miller514213.81
Adrian R. Pearce630131.88
Liz Sonenberg7802119.89