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Enabling Agents to Update Their Knowledge and to Prefer
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Enabling Agents to Update Their Knowledge and to Prefer
Pierangelo Dell’Acqua2 and Luís Moniz Pereira3 
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Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, Norrköping, Sweden |
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Centro de Inteligência Artificial - CENTRIA Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal |
Abstract
In a previous paper [5] we presented a combination of the dynamic logic programming paradigm proposed by J. J. Alferes et al. [1],[10] and a version of KS-agents proposed by Kowalski and Sadri [7]. In the resulting framework, rational, reactive agents can dynamically change their own knowledge bases as well as their
own goals. In particular, at every iteration of an observe-think-act cycle, the agent can make observations, learn new facts
and new rules from the environment, and then it can update its knowledge accordingly. The agent can also receive a piece of
information that contrasts with its knowledge. To solve eventual cases of contradiction within the theory of an agent, techniques
of contradiction removal and preferences among several sources can be adopted [8]. The actions of an agent are modeled by means of updates, inspired by the approach in [3]. A semantic characterization of updates is given in [1] as a generalization of the stable model semantics of normal logic programs [6]. Such a semantics is generalized to the three-valued case in [3], which enable us to update programs under the well-founded semantics.
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