Prioritized Goals and Subgoals in a Logical Account of Goal Change - A Preliminary Report

Handling Prioritized Goals and Subgoals in a Logical Account of Goal Change ( Extended Abstract )

Handling prioritized goals and subgoals in a logical account of goal change

Most existing formal models of goals [2, 3] assume that all goals are equally important and many only deal with achievement goals. Moreover, they do not guarantee that an agent’s goals will properly evolve when an action/event occurs, e.g. when the agent’s beliefs/knowledge changes or a goal is adopted or dropped. Also, most of these frameworks do not model the dependencies between goals and th...

A logical framework for prioritized goal change

Most previous logical accounts of goals do not deal with prioritized goals and goal dynamics properly. Many are restricted to achievement goals. In this paper, we develop a logical account of goal change that addresses these deficiencies. In our account, we do not drop lower priority goals permanently when they become inconsistent with other goals and the agent’s knowledge; rather, we make such...

The Logical Foundations of Goal-Regression Planning in Autonomous Agents

This paper addresses the logical foundations of goal-regression planning in autonomous rational agents. It focuses mainly on three problems. The first is that goals and subgoals will often be conjunctions, and to apply goal-regression planning to a conjunction we usually have to plan separately for the conjuncts and then combine the resulting subplans. A logical problem arises from the fact tha...

Designing an Integrated Multilevel Evaluation Model: A Case Study of the School Peer Counseling Program

This study sought to design a comprehensive evaluation model which can be utilized to evaluate educational programs with broad target populations and multiple management and executive layers, including the School Peer Counseling Program. This qualitative research had a descriptive design. Purposeful sampling method was used and the sample was non-randomly selected from the executive scientific ...