Contextual deliberation of cognitive agents in defeasible logic
Mehdi M. Dastani, Guido Governatori, Antonino Rotolo, Insu Song, Leendert van der Torre · 2007
Cognitive agents often deliberate about preferences among rules. Consider, for example, an agent with the obligation to travel to Paris next week leading to a desire to travel by train, with the preferences that if the desire to travel by train cannot be met, then there is a desire to travel by plane. Such an agent may reason about preferences among rules as follows: