Goals in agent systems: a unifying framework

  • Authors:
  • M. Birna van Riemsdijk;Mehdi Dastani;Michael Winikoff

  • Affiliations:
  • LMU Munich, Germany;Utrecht University, The Netherlands;RMIT University, Melbourne Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the literature on agent systems, the proactive behavior of agents is often modeled in terms of goals that the agents pursue. We review a number of commonly-used existing goal types and propose a simple and general definition of goal, which unifies these goal types. We then give a formal and generic operationalization of goals by defining an abstract goal architecture, which describes the adoption, pursuit, and dropping of goals in a generic way. This operationalization is used to characterize the discussed goal types.