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title: "Modelling Intentional Behavior Generation"
authors:
  - "William S. Faught"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/59"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0059.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# Modelling Intentional Behavior Generation

William S. Faught

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

Two problems of modelling intentions are identified: representing intentional and nonintentional (mechanical) actions in a single model consistently, and implementing a control structure that accounts for how intentional actions are initiated. These two problems stem from a common source: the interaction of intentional and nonintentional actions. We review a simulation model of cognitive and motivational processes based on a production system architecture that includes both types of actions. We then describe a meta system addition to the simulation model composed of nonintentional actions.