TY - JOUR
T1 - Preliminary thoughts on an agent description language
AU - Thomas, Becky
AU - Shoham, Yoav
AU - Schwartz, Anton
AU - Kraus, Sarit
PY - 1991/8
Y1 - 1991/8
N2 - As part of our work on agent‐oriented programming,1 we are developing an agent description language. We describe an agent's “mental state” in terms of its knowledge, beliefs, desires, commitments, and abilities. Our goal is not to specify human knowledge, beliefs, etc., but rather to devise a more limited, precise language to facilitate programming agents and interagent communication. We believe that borrowing from our intuition about these commonsense terms will simplify the human designer's job. This article describes a preliminary version of our language. We define a temporal language with modal operators representing knowledge, belief, desire, commitment, and ability. This is a propositional language with quantification over time points and agents only.
AB - As part of our work on agent‐oriented programming,1 we are developing an agent description language. We describe an agent's “mental state” in terms of its knowledge, beliefs, desires, commitments, and abilities. Our goal is not to specify human knowledge, beliefs, etc., but rather to devise a more limited, precise language to facilitate programming agents and interagent communication. We believe that borrowing from our intuition about these commonsense terms will simplify the human designer's job. This article describes a preliminary version of our language. We define a temporal language with modal operators representing knowledge, belief, desire, commitment, and ability. This is a propositional language with quantification over time points and agents only.
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U2 - 10.1002/int.4550060504
DO - 10.1002/int.4550060504
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AN - SCOPUS:0026203478
SN - 0884-8173
VL - 6
SP - 497
EP - 508
JO - International Journal of Intelligent Systems
JF - International Journal of Intelligent Systems
IS - 5
ER -