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    "pk": 31701,
    "title": "Intentions in Time",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Representing and reasoning about goal-directed\nactions is necessary in order for autonomous\nagents to act in or understand the commonsense\nworld. This paper provides a formal theory of in-\ntentional action based on Bratman's characteriza-\ntion of intention [Bratman, 1987, Bratman, 1990].\nOur formalization profits from the the formaliza-\ntion of Bratman's theory developed by Cohen and\nLevesque [l990a, 1990bJ. W e review their formal-\nization and illustrate its weaknesses. Using Allen's\ntemporal logic [Allen, 1984] , w e construct a for-\nmalization that satisfies Bratman's desiderata for\nan acceptable theory of intentional action. W e in-\ntroduce a characterization of success and failure of\nintentional action and show that our richer theory\nof time allows us to formalize more complex inten-\ntional actions, particularly those with deadlines.\nFinally, we argue that the use of a syntactic theory\nof belief allows us to accommodatea more descrip-\ntive theory of intentional action by fallible agents.\nOur work has relevance to multi-agent planning,\nspeech-act processing and narrative understand-\ning. W e are using this theory to representing the\ncontent of narratives and to constructing and un-\nderstanding description-based communication.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Robert",
            "middle_name": "P.",
            "last_name": "Goldman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tulane University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "R.",
            "middle_name": "Raymond",
            "last_name": "Lang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tulane University",
            "department": ""
        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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