Detecting & avoiding interference between goals in intelligent agents
John Thangarajah, Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff · 2003
Pro-active agents typically have multiple goals active simultaneously. These goals may interact with each other both positively and negatively. In this paper we provide a mechanism allowing agents to detect and avoid a particular kind of negative interaction where the effects of one goal undo conditions that must be protected for successful pursuit of another goal. In order to detect such interactions we maintain summary information about the definite and potential conditional requirements and resulting effects of goals and their associated plans.