Intention Based Logics Framework

Generating Plans for Belief

Belief-Desire- Intention (BDI) is a framework for modelling agents based on their beliefs, desires, and intentions . Plans are a central component of BDI agents, and define sequences of actions that an agent must undertake to achieve a certain goal. Existing approaches to plan generation often require significant manual effort, and are mainly focused on single-agent systems. As a result, in this ...

We briefly show the existing results: logical framework for intention refinement and the extension of hierarchical task network (HTN) planning to capture high-level intentions . We also present two ongoing directions: extending our logi-cal framework with hierarchical decomposition and revision of intentions based on instrumentality.

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10.1 Introduction In this chapter we present an overview of so-called BDI (for Beliefs, Desires, and Intentions ) logics , that is, logics that describe the mental attitudes of intelligent agents in terms of folk-psychological notions of beliefs, desires and intentions . This theory is based on the work of the philosopher Michael Bratman — as with all chapters in his book, references to the ...