Dynamics of Declarative Goals in Agent Programming

In this paper, the notion of declarative goals as used in agent programming is central. Declarative goals describe desirable states and are updated during the execution of an agent. These goal dynamics are analyzed by distinguishing and formalizing various notions of goal dropping and goal adoption. Furthermore, possible motivations for an agent to drop or adopt goals are identified. Based on these motivations, we define specific mechanisms for implementing dropping and adoption. We show how these mechanisms are related to the general definitions of dropping and adoption.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DALT
• Authors: Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
• Keywords: Agent Programming, DALT 2004, Declarative Goals, Goal Dropping