Detecting & Avoiding Interference Between Goals in Intelligent Agents
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 721-725.
Abstract
Pro-active agents typically have multiple simultaneous goals. These may interact with each other both positively and negatively. In this paper we provide a mechanism allowing agents to detect and avoid a particular kind of negative interaction where the effects of one goal undo conditions that must be protected for successful pursuit of another goal. In order to detect such interactions we maintain summary information about the definite and potential conditional requirements and resulting effects of goals and their associated plans. We use these summaries to guard protected conditions by scheduling the execution of goals and plan steps. The algorithms and data structures developed allow agents to act rationally instead of blindly pursuing goals that will conflict.
@inproceedings{ijcai2003p105,
title = {Detecting & Avoiding Interference Between Goals in Intelligent Agents},
author = {Thangarajah, John and Padgham, Lin and Winikoff, Michael},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-03}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Georg Gottlob},
pages = {721--725},
year = {2003},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/105},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Detecting & Avoiding Interference Between Goals in Intelligent Agents AU - Thangarajah, John AU - Padgham, Lin AU - Winikoff, Michael T2 - Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-03 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 2003 SP - 721 EP - 725 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/105 ER -Copied
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