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Changing attitudes

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Intelligent Agents (ATAL 1994)

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This paper brings together ideas from work on commonsense causal reasoning and work on formalising attitudes, such as beliefs, desires, intentions and obligations, to provide the basis of a theory of changing attitudes. It takes the view that rational agents do not change their attitudes without reason, and aims to represent such changes in teleological theories. The infrastructure of these theories contain persistence rules which state that agents attitudes persist unless they have reason to change them. Theories giving the agents' reasons for changing their attitudes build on these. This leads to a discussion of rationality in resource-bounded agents and the paper concludes by outlining an AI-planning theory of rational agency.

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  1. Applied Logic Group, Computer Science Department, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, E1_4NS, London

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Bell, J. (1995). Changing attitudes. In: Wooldridge, M.J., Jennings, N.R. (eds) Intelligent Agents. ATAL 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 890. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58855-8_2

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