Why You Should Buy an Emotional Planner
Jonathan S. Gratch · 1999
Computation models of emotion have begun to address the problem of how agents arrive at a given emotional state, and how that state might alter their reactions to the environment. Existing work has focused on reactive models of behavior and does not, as of yet, provide much insight on how emotion might relate to the construction and execution of complex plans. This article focuses on this later question. I present a model of how agents appraise the emotion significance of events that illustrates a complementary relationship between classical planning methods and models of emotion processing. By building on classical planning methods, the model clarifies prior accounts of emotional appraisal and extends these accounts to handle the generation and execution of complex multi-agent plans. Keywords Emotions, cognitive appraisal, planning 1 INTRODUCTION Though emotions are central to our daily experience, they are peripheral at best in most computational models of intelligent behavior. T...