Agent programming with temporally extended goals

  • Authors:
  • Koen V. Hindriks;Wiebe van der Hoek;M. Birna van Riemsdijk

  • Affiliations:
  • Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In planning as well as in other areas, temporal logic has been used to specify so-called temporally extended goals. Temporally extended goals refer to desirable sequences of states instead of a set of desirable final states as the traditional notion of achievement goal does, and provide for more variety in the types of goals allowed. In this paper, we show how temporally extended goals can be integrated into the agent programming language Goal. The result is that Goal agents may now have both beliefs about the future as well as have temporally extended goals. We propose a new decision making mechanism that takes temporally extended goals into account, and investigate properties of this framework.