Autonomous agents, by definition, have the freedom to make their own decisions. Rational agents execute actions that are in their “best interests” according to their desires. Action selection is complicated due to uncertainty when operating in a dynamic environment or where other agents can also influence the environment. This paper presents an action selection framework and algorithms that are...

OBJECTIVES Fertility desires require new understanding in a context of expanding access to antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper studies the fertility desires and their rationales, of slum-dwelling Kenyan men and women living with HIV/AIDS who know their serostatus, but have different antiretroviral therapy treatment statuses. It addresses two ...

BACKGROUND Literature review has shown that some years back the fertility desires of people living with HIV was low but in the recent years, it was reported as increasing. However, little is known about the strength of association of fertility desire of HIV positive people with antiretroviral therapy (ART) experience, age, sex, education level, and number of children. METHODS In these meta-an...

Rao and Georgeff’s BDICTL logic is a popular specification and verification language for cognitive agent systems, in which desires and goals are unified into a single motivational attitude. In this paper desires and goals are distinguished to specify the merging of desires into goals, an important process in several agent systems such as Broersen et al.’s BOID system. We therefore introduce a B...