Best Intentions

Robots with the Best of Intentions

Intelligent mobile robots need the ability to integrate robust navigation facilities with higher level reasoning. This paper is an attempt at combining results and techniques from the areas of robot navigation and of intelligent agency. We propose to integrate an existing navigation system based on fuzzy logic with a deliberator based on the so-called BDI model. We discuss some of the subtletie...

Best Intentions? Towards Intention Recognition and Strategy Switching for Mixed-Initiative Recommender Systems

Recommender systems are designed to assist users in the search for product and service information and have been successfully deployed in a range of domains, from restaurants to route planning, movies to news. In particular, conversational recommender systems engage the user in an extended recommendation dialog, making suggestions and eliciting user feedback in order to guide the next round of ...

Group Intentions

Groups of intelligent agents are studied in several subareas of Artificial Intelligence, notably, autonomous agents, multiagent planning and action, discourse understanding, and cooperative work. I motivate and present a formal theory of the intentions of a group of agents that analyzes the intentions of a group in terms of its internal organization, and the intentions of its members. This theo...

Research intentions

Conscious Intentions

It has recently been widely argued that all consciousness is perceptual, including the conscious experience of action. This paper argues that there can be a conscious component of the experience of action that is not perceptual. The argument is based on Searle’s concept of “direction of fit” and the conditions of satisfaction of an intention. The conditions of satisfaction of an intention diffe...