Intentions under cover – Hiding intentions is considered unfair

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

The Sky is Full of Good Intentions

The aim of this paper is to illustrate how System Dynamics can beneficiate small and medium international nongovernmental organisations (hereafter NGOs). As the majority of small NGOs are based on voluntary work, few adopt strategic and professional management to enhance and guarantee their sustainability. Such context rises several challenges which NGOs must learn to recognise and to face. A S...

Preschoolers' Trust is Sensitive to Variable Intentions

This research demonstrates that preschoolers flexibly trust and mistrust the same individuals, as preschoolers recognize that their intentions may vary. In Study 1 (N=101) 3and 4-yearolds trusted speakers based on their current, rather than previous, intentions to give in/correct information. Thus preschoolers infer the meanings behind different intentions and recognize that intentions change w...

Learning is impaired by activated intentions.

Two experiments examined the task interference that sometimes accrues from having an intention. In standard prospective memory tasks, latency is often slower to an ongoing task performed concurrently with having an intention than it is when no intention is given. If the locus of this slowing resulted from different attentional allocation policies in the two cases, we predicted that the process ...