Multi-entity Models
Yoram Moses, Moshe Tennenholtz · 1996
Abstract In a seminal paper, McCarthy and Hayes (1969) suggested firstorder logic as a basis for knowledge representation and reasoning about action. They considered, and rejected, a model of inteacting automata as being epistemologically inadequate. This chapter suggests multi-entity models, a framework closely related to the interacting automata of McCarthy and Hayes, as a tool for knowledge representation and reasoning. Multi-entity models are designed so as to overcome some of the main criticisms of interacting automata. A number of basic issues in multi-agent activity are investigated in the framework of these models, illustrating both the expressiveness and the computational tractability of multi-entity models.