Notes and Reading - Lecture #6
Lecture #6 was a seminar on Deductive reasoning agents.
Notes
There are no notes for this lecture
Reading
The reading assignment for this seminar should have been:
Y. Shoham, Agent Oriented Programming, Journal of Artificial
Intelligence 60 (1), pp. 51-92, 1993.
But I couldn't get a copy in time.
Instead we will discuss the ideas in Shoham's paper as described in the notes that Albert Esterlin has posted about the paper.
I will distribute copies of the paper when I get one myself :-)
The questions you have to answer before class are:
- What aspects of the ABCD example make it a suitable example of agents interacting?
- Is it sensible to insist that an agent's beliefs are consistent (as is done in Agent0)? Why?
- How reasonable so you find the Agent0 model of persistence of obligations?
- Consider the way that beliefs and obligations are handled in Agent0. How might this be implemented in an Agent0 interpreter?
- How might the implementation of beliefs and obligations be extended from that in Agent0?
Short answers (a couple of sentences) only are required, but I must
have them by midnight the night before before class.