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title: "Using Situation Descriptions and Russellian Attitudes for Representing Beliefs and Wants"
authors:
  - "Alfred Kobsa"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/98"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0098.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "513-514"
track: "Knowledge Representation"
keywords:
---

# Using Situation Descriptions and Russellian Attitudes for Representing Beliefs and Wants

Alfred Kobsa

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 513-514.

## Abstract

A representation sc heme for arbitrary beliefs and wants of an agent in respect to a situation, as well as to arbitrary beliefs and wants of other agents, is presented. The representation makes use of elementary situation descriptions (which are formulated in KL-ONE and delimitated by partitions), and acceptance attitudes in respect to these descriptions, or to attitudes thereabout. The scheme forms the representational base of VIE-DPM, the user modelling component of the German-language dialogue system VIE-LANG.