In this paper, I discuss whether different interpretations of the aim belief – both teleological and normative have resources to explain certain descriptive features suspended belief, or suspension. argue that despite recent efforts theorists extend these theories account for suspension, they ultimately fail. The implication is we must either develop alternative can abandon assumption ought be ...

Maintaining an accurate set of beliefs in a partially observable scenario, particularly with respect to other agents operating in the same space, is a vital aspect of multiagent planning. We analyze how the beliefs of an agent can be updated for fast adaptivity to changes in the behavior of an unknown teammate. The main contribution of this paper is the empirical evaluation of an agent cooperat...

Cognitive frameworks and belief systems are the primary lenses through which presidents view the world. Two important questions are whether these beliefs ever change significantly, and if so, what causes these changes? This article develops empirical data on the strategic and operational beliefs of President George W. Bush (GWB) as a means of examining the theoretical basis for how and why core...

Several new logics for belief and knowledge are introduced and studied, all of which have the property that agents are not logically omniscient. In particular, in these logics, the set of beliefs of an agent does not necessarily contain all valid formulas. Thus, these logics are more suitable than traditional logics for modelling beliefs of humans (or machines) wi th limited reasoning capabilit...

Several new logics for belief and knowledge are introduced and studied, all of which have the property that agents are not logically omniscient. In particular, in these logics, the set of beliefs of an agent does not necessarily contain all valid formulas. Thus, these logics are more suitable than traditional logics for modelling beliefs of humans (or machines) with limited reasoning capabiliti...

This paper investigates the problem of belief update in Bayesian networks (BN) with uncertain evidence. Two types of uncertain evidences are identified: virtual evidence (reflecting the uncertainty one has about a reported observation) and soft evidence (reflecting the uncertainty of an event one observes). Each of the two types of evidence has its own characteristics and obeys a belief update ...

An efficient articulated body tracking algorithm is proposed in this paper. Due to the high dimensionality of human-body motion, current articulated tracking algorithms based on sampling [1], belief propagation (BP) [2], or non-parametric belief propagation (NBP) [3], are very slow. To accelerate the articulated tracking algorithm, we adapted belief propagation according to the dynamics of arti...

Does contrastive access help preschoolers succeed on traditional false-belief tasks? Threeand four-year-olds were presented with a modified version of the change-of-location story in which two characters are the focus of interest. In the contrastive access condition preschoolers’ observe that one character leaves the room while the other stays and witnesses the moving event; in the non-contrast...

Artificial agents engaged in real world applications require accurate resource allocation strategies. For instance, open systems may require artificial agents with the capability to filter out all information which are irrelevant with respect to the actual intentions and goals. In this work we develop a model of surprise-driven belief update. We formally define a strategy for epistemic reasonin...