Intelligent management of interacting goals within an agent
Lin Padgham
Computer Science and Information Technology
RMIT Univeristy
9-30am - 11am,
RMIT University Function Room (near Kaleide Theatre)
Building 8, level 2, RMIT,
Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Abstract:
This presentation is based primarily on the paper "Avoiding Resource
Conflicts in Intelligent Agents" by John Thangarajah, Michael
Winikoff, Lin Padgham and Klaus Fischer, presented at ECAI 2002.
An intelligent agent should be rational in its pursuit of goals. It
should definitely avoid pursuing parallel goals where it is certain
that they are conflicting and that pursuing both will ensure that
neither succeeds. It should also be able to make use of potential
positive interactions between goals. A common source of conflict
between goals is resource needs. In this work we focus on BDI agents that
use a plan library organised around goals. We characterise different
types of resources and define resource requirements summaries which
can be computed at compile time and managed efficiently at runtime to
support the recognition of and decision making about potential
resource conflicts.
Biosketch:
Lin Padgham is Associate Professor in AI and leads the RMIT
Intelligent Agents group.