Generating possible intentions with constrained argumentation systems

Practical reasoning (PR), which is concerned with the generic question of whatto do, is generally seen as a two steps process: (1) deliberation, in which an agentdecides what state of affairs it wants to reach –that is, its desires; and (2) means-ends reasoning, in which the agent looks for plans for achieving these desires.The agent’s intentions are a consistent set of desires that are achievable together. This paper proposes the first argumentation system for PR that computes inone step the possible intentions of an agent, avoiding thus the drawbacks of theexisting systems. The proposed system is grounded on a recent work on con-strained argumentation systems, and satisfies the rationality postulates identifiedin argumentation literature, namely the consistency and the completeness of theresults.