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Quantifying the Completeness of Goals in BDI Agent Systems

Proceedings article published in 2014 by John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, Neil Yorke-Smith ORCID
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Abstract

Given the current set of intentions an autonomous agent may have, intention selection is the agent's decision which inten-tion it should focus on next. Often, in the presence of conflicts, the agent has to choose between multiple intentions. One factor that may play a role in this deliberation is the level of completeness of the intentions. To that end, this paper provides pragmatic but principled mechanisms for quantifying the level of completeness of goals in a BDI-style agent. Our approach leverages previous work on resource and effects summarization but we go beyond by accommodating both dynamic resource summaries and goal effects, while also allowing a non-binary quantification of goal completeness. We demonstrate the computational approach on an autonomous robot case study.