{"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10t6z96w","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":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31701/galley/22769/download/"}]}