Goal-directed requirements acquisition

Goal-Directed Knowledge Acquisition

Agents with incomplete knowledge of their actions can either plan around the incompleteness, ask questions of a domain expert, or learn through trial and error. We present and evaluate several approaches to formulating plans under incomplete information, using the plans to identify relevant (goaldirected) questions, and interleaving acting, planning, and question asking. We show that goal-direc...

Goal-Directed Elaboration of Requirements for a Meeting Scheduler

participants are highly reliable in maintaining their electronic agenda as an explicit assumption. (Similar assumptions were made about the participants willingness to respond to scheduler requests for communicating date constraints or weakened versions of them.) The formulation of such assertions as explicit assumptions attached to the goals/constraints that depend on them would make it possib...

10 Goal - directed imitation

“Stop copying me!” shrieks a friend’s seven-year-old as she admires her bead-bedecked image in the mirror. “I not copying!” responds her three-year-old sister indignantly, while fingering rows of beaded necklaces around her own neck. Anyone who has observed a similar scene knows that a heated argument follows about “what counts” as copying, and whether playing with beads might be the result of ...

Efficient Goal-Directed Exploration

If a state space is not completely known in advance, then search algorithms have to explore it sufficiently to locate a goal state and a path leading to it, performing therefore what we call goal-directed exploration. Two paradigms of this process are pure exploration and heuristic-driven exploitation: the former approaches explore the state space using only knowledge of the physically visited ...

Goal-directed Proof Theory