Abstract
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is arguably the first implementation of the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) approach to agent programming. PRS remains extremely influential, directly or indirectly inspiring the development of subsequent BDI agent programming languages. However, perhaps surprisingly given its centrality in the BDI paradigm, PRS lacks a formal operational semantics, making it difficult to determine its expressive power relative to other agent programming languages. This paper takes a first step towards closing this gap, by giving a formal semantics for a significant fragment of PRS. We prove key properties of the semantics relating to PRS-specific programming constructs, and show that even the fragment of PRS we consider is strictly more expressive than the plan constructs found in typical BDI languages.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018 |
| Editors | Jerome Lang |
| Publisher | International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization |
| Pages | 195-202 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780999241127 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Event | 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 13 Jul 2018 → 19 Jul 2018 |
Conference
| Conference | 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018 |
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| Country/Territory | Sweden |
| City | Stockholm |
| Period | 13/07/18 → 19/07/18 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Lavindra is grateful to Félix Ingrand for useful discussions about OpenPRS while Lavindra was a researcher on the GOAC/MARAE projects (2009-2011) at LAAS-CNRS. Felipe thanks CNPq for partial financial support under its PQ fellowship, grant number 305969/2016-1.
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