Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008, Volume 5314/2008, 498-509, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88513-9_54

A Fuzzy Set Semantics for Qualitative Fluents in the Situation Calculus

Alexander Ferrein, Stefan Schiffer and Gerhard Lakemeyer

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Abstract

Specifying the behavior of an intelligent autonomous robot or agent is a non-trivial task. The question is: how can the knowledge of the domain expert be encoded in the agent program? Qualitative representations in general facilitate to express the knowledge of a domain expert. In this paper, we propose a semantics for qualitative fluents in the situation calculus. Our semantics is based on fuzzy sets. Membership functions define to which degree a qualitative fluent belongs to a particular category. Especially intriguing about a fuzzy set semantics for qualitative fluents is that the qualitative ranges may overlap, and a value can, at the same time, fall into several categories.

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