Modeling Belief and Preference in
Shawn D. Bird, M. Kasper, Texas Tech · 1996
In systems such as groups, problem solving is an intentional that causes individual agents to pursue goals, commit to action, and adopt belie@, as well as seek and manipulate related knowledge and information. Because human agents can engage in such action independently, conflicting agent-centric preference for 'rpyOduct and process emerge in group problem solving. Although such capabilities have been speculated for machine agents, they have been given only rudimentary conceptual definition and, hence, are far @om practical for application to multi-agent support systems. Yet, the same problems of preference seem likely. l%is paper outlines a conceptual model and supporting logic for intentional processes in multi-agent support systems and then explores agent preference for problem solving strategv in more depth.