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Results WG Deliberation

• John-Jules Meyer
• Emil Weydert

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Day 1

• Introduction
• Discussion of BDI and alternatives
• BOID
• QDT
• Game theory
• ...

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Day 1

• Disadvantages? / problems? with BDI
• Lack of concensus about interaction axioms -gt
  agent types?!
• Lack of concensus about BDI concepts such as
  goals, abilities, etc (every author has its own
  conception)
• Need further extensions -gt very/too complicated
  semantics ?!

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Day 2

• What is deliberation?
• Balancing knowledge and desire yielding plan /
  intention
• How to get goals (Wooldridge)
• (re)planning --- DI update -- reasoning about
  action
• Application of Max. Exp. Utility model

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What is deliberation? (ctd)

• Choosing intentions/goals/plans
• Dealing with conflicts (e.g. arising from
  communication vs autonomy)
• Maintenance of BDI-state (including BDI
  revision/updates)
• Ambiguity wrt deliberation selection vs the
  whole deliberation process

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Killer applications??

• (long discussion)
• Applications everywhere
• Robots (e.g. in transport)
• Natural / rational dialogue generation,
  negotiations
• Deliberation whether agent should engage in
  knowledge-seeking action

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Killer applications??

• (long discussion)
• Applications everywhere
• cooperation
• negotiation
• information

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Conclusion

• Killer applications to be found in the other
  working groups (negotiation, cooperation,
  information) !!!

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