Contextual Agent Deliberation in Defeasible Logic

in PRIMA (2007)

This article extends Defeasible Logic to deal with the contextual de- liberation process of cognitive agents. First, we introduce meta-rules to reason with rules. Meta-rules are rules that have as a ... [more ▼]

This article extends Defeasible Logic to deal with the contextual de- liberation process of cognitive agents. First, we introduce meta-rules to reason with rules. Meta-rules are rules that have as a consequent rules for motivational components, such as obligations, intentions and desires. In other words, they in- clude nested rules. Second, we introduce explicit preferences among rules. They deal with complex structures where nested rules can be involved. [less ▲]