Intentionality, Committment and Reactivity in Agent Systems

Lin Padgham
RMIT and CSIRO-MIS

Tuesday 15 June at 11am

Abstract

The balance between reactivity to environmental change and the ability to maintain a committment to achieving a particular goal that has been decided on is an important aspect of agent systems. This talk will focus on examples of problems caused by over-commitment or over-reactivity and will look at some mechanisms for management of these issues.

Short resume

Lin Padgham is Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at RMIT University, Melbourne, and is on secondment to the Applied Artificial Intelligence group within CMIS, for 1999. Lin received her PhD from Linkoping University, Sweden, in 1989, in the area of default reasoning. She has worked in various areas of commonsense reasoning and has for the last 5 years been working in the area of intelligent agent systems.

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