BIO logical agents: Norms, beliefs, intentions in defeasible logic

  • Authors:
  • Guido Governatori;Antonino Rotolo

  • Affiliations:
  • School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4072;CIRSFID-Law Faculty, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 40121

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper we follow the BOID (Belief, Obligation, Intention, Desire) architecture to describe agents and agent types in Defeasible Logic. We argue, in particular, that the introduction of obligations can provide a new reading of the concepts of intention and intentionality. Then we examine the notion of social agent (i.e., an agent where obligations prevail over intentions) and discuss some computational and philosophical issues related to it. We show that the notion of social agent either requires more complex computations or has some philosophical drawbacks.