The cost of social agents

  • Authors:
  • Guido Governatori;Antonino Rotolo;Vineet Padmanabhan

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper we follow the BOID (Belief, Obligation, Intention, Desire) architecture to describe agents and agent types in Defeasible Logic. We argue 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.