Planning at the Intention Level
Nick Lacey, Henry H. Hexmoor, Gordon Beavers · 2002
Intentions enable an agent to achieve long-term goals. When an agent wishes to achieve an intention, it uses actions to bring it about. In this paper we investigate the relationship be-tween intentions and actions. We begin by describing previ-ous work involving a responsive agent capable of coherence-based belief revision. We then describe the implementation and testing of a system capable of representing and manip-ulating high level intentions. The implications of planning at the intention level are then discussed. We conclude that the architecture we put forward facilitates the development of agents which are able to plan pro-actively while still being able to cope with variation in the environment.