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Towards a motivation-based approach for evaluating goals

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Steve Munroe,

Michael Luck,

Mark d'InvernoAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '03: Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Pages 1074 - 1075

https://doi.org/10.1145/860575.860802

Published: 14 July 2003 Publication History

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Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in which a goal state can only be partially satisfied. In these situations the traditional symbolic goal representation needs modifying in order that an agent can determine a worth value of a goal state and also of any state approximating the goal. In our work we use the concept of worth in two ways. First, we propose a mechanism by which the worth of a goal is dynamically set as a function of the intensity of an underlying motivation. Second, we determine the worth of any state in relation to a goal through the use of a metric by which we can measure the proximity of an environmental state to a goal. In this way, it is possible to make judgements about the relative satisfaction an environmental state offers in regard to a goal.

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Luck MMunroe SAshri RLopez y Lopez F(2004)Trust and norms for interaction2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37583)10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1399973(1944-1949)Online publication date: 2004
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Towards a motivation-based approach for evaluating goals
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems

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DOI:10.1145/860575

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Luck MMunroe SAshri RLopez y Lopez F(2004)Trust and norms for interaction2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37583)10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1399973(1944-1949)Online publication date: 2004
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1399973
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICHIS.2004.6

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