International Workshop on
Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems:
Theories and Applications (RASTA'02)
Abstract for
- 14:10 - 15:30 (second presentation)
- What is a Normative Goal?
Mehdi Dastani and Leon van der Torre
In this paper we are interested in developing goal-based normative agent architectures. We ask ourselves the question what a normative goal is. To answer this question we introduce a qualitative normative decision theory based on belief (B) and obligation (O) rules. Goals are not first class citizens but defined indirectly. We show that every agent which makes optimal decisions which we call a BO rational agent acts as if it is maximizing its achieved normative goals. This is the basis of our design of goal-based normative agents.
Daniel Moldt
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