The rationale behind the concept of goal
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Olivieri, Francesco
Scannapieco, Simone
Rotolo, Antonino
Cristani, Matteo
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The paper proposes a fresh look at the concept of goal and advances that motivational attitudes like desire, goal and intention are just facets of the broader notion of (acceptable) outcome. We propose to encode the preferences of an agent as sequences of alternative acceptable outcomes. We then study how the agent's beliefs and norms can be used to filter the mental attitudes out of the sequences of alternative acceptable outcomes. Finally, we formalise such intuitions in a novel Modal Defeasible Logic and we prove that the resulting formalisation is computationally feasible.
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
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16
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3
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This article has been published in a revised form in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming https://doi.org/10.1017/S1471068416000053. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © Cambridge University Press 2016.
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Artificial intelligence
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Computer Science, Software Engineering
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Governatori, G; Olivieri, F; Scannapieco, S; Rotolo, A; Cristani, M, The rationale behind the concept of goal, Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 2016, 16 (3), pp. 296-324