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title: "Ascribing Plans to Agents"
authors:
  - "Kurt Konolige"
  - "Martha E. Pollack"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/148"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/0148.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1989
pages: "924-929"
track: "Planning, Scheduling, Reasoning About Actions"
keywords:
---

# Ascribing Plans to Agents

Kurt Konolige, Martha E. Pollack

*Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 924-929.

## Abstract

Intelligent agents who are situated in multiagent domains must reas-on about one anothers' actions and plans. Following the tradition of earlier work in AI, we present a model of P.lan rec?gnition as belief and intention ascriptwn, an mherently defeasible reasoning process . However, we encode this process using a direct argumentation system . Within this system, we can make explicit statements about why one candidate ascription should be preferred over another .. And we can avoid the overly strong assumptwn that the actor's plan is correct from the perspective of the observer -a n assumption that was necessary in previous formalizations of plan recognition.