Utilitarian desires

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 329-363

  Lang, Jérôme ^a   Van Der Torre, Leendert ^b   Weydert, Emil ^c  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; BDI logic; Logic of desires; Nonmonotonic reasoning about preferences; QDT; Qualitative decision theory; Utilitarian desires

Indexed keywords

UTILITARIAN DESIRES;

DECISION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 0036268162     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015508524218     Document Type: Article

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