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On Partial Deduction and Conversational Agents

Publication Type:

Book Chapter

Source:

Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, IOS Press, Volume 184, p.60-69 (2008)

Abstract:

Agents are situated autonomous entities that perceive and act in their environ-
ment, and communicate with other agents. An agent usually starts a conversation
by querying another agent because it needs to satisfy a speci?c goal. This process
allocates a new goal to the agent receiving the initial query, starting new dialogs
with other agents, generating a recursive interaction. The generation of this kind of
dialog is interesting when the system has the possibility of generating conditional
answers with imprecise and uncertain values. We consider simple deliberative rule-
based agents that proactively try to satisfy their goals. The mechanism to achieve
this dialogs is based in the specialization of the mental state of agents, by means of
the partial deduction of rule bases

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