This paper presents three types of declarative goals: perform goals, achieve goals, and maintain goals. The integration of these goal types in a simple but extendable logic-based a...
Mehdi Dastani, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, John-Jules ...
Norms represent what ought to be done, and their fulfillment can be seen as benefiting the overall system, society or organisation. However, individual agent goals (desire) may con...
This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so define new goals. Using the motiva...
Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable...
With the goal of supporting the knowledge circulation and creation process in a society, we have studied story-based communication in a network community. On the basis of this res...
Yukiko I. Nakano, Toshihiro Murayama, Masashi Okam...