Computational beliefs

A Computational Model of Persistent Beliefs

The persistence of beliefs has been assumed in many research effotrs, either explicitly or implicitly, but a computational model is hard to find. For instance, in his well-known AOP article (Shoham 1993), Shoham suggests a formal language for beliefs and states that beliefs persist by default. The author writes (Be/A3 Be&‘O Like(A,B)7) means that at time 3 agent A believes that at time 10 agent...

Acquisition of Desires before Beliefs: A Computational Investigation

The acquisition of Belief verbs lags behind the acquisition of Desire verbs in children. Some psycholinguistic theories attribute this lag to conceptual differences between the two classes, while others suggest that syntactic differences are responsible. Through computational experiments, we show that a probabilistic verb learning model exhibits the pattern of acquisition, even though there is ...

Reasoning about Beliefs and Actions Under Computational Resource Constraints

Reasoning About Beliefs and Actions Under Computational Resource Constraints

"beliefs about Beliefs" without Probabilities

Mutual Beliefs of Multiple Conversants: A Computational Model of Collaboration in Air Traffic Control

This work develops a computational model for representing and reasoning about dia-logue in terms of the mutuality of belief of the conversants. We simulated cooperativedialogues at the speech act level and compared the simulations with actual dialoguesbetween pilots and air traffic controllers engaged in real tasks. In the simulations,addressees and overhearers formed belief...