Organon F
Volume 30, February 2023, Issue 1, Pages 66–101
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article | Special issue on Times, Events, and Logical Specification
Specification of Agents’ Activities in Past, Present and Future
Marie Duží
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30105
The behaviour of a multi-agent system is driven by messaging. Usually, there is no central dispatcher and each autonomous agent, though resource-bounded, can make less or more rational decisions to meet its own and collective goals. To this end, however, agents must communicate with their fellow agents and account for the signals from their environment. Moreover, in the dynamic, permanently changing world, agents’ behaviour, i.e. their activities, must also be dynamic. By communicating with other fellow agents and with their environment, agents should be able to learn new concepts and enrich their knowledge base. Processes and events that happened in the past may be irrelevant in the present or have a significant impact in the future, and vice versa. Therefore, the fine-grained analysis of agents’ activities as well as events within or beyond the system is very important so that the system can run smoothly without falling into inconsistencies. Moreover, as the system should communicate with its environment, the analysis should be as close to natural language as possible. The goal of this paper is a proposal for such an analysis. To this end, I apply Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL) because TIL is particularly apt for a fine-grained analysis of processes and events specified in the present, past or future tense with reference to the time when they happened, happen or will happen.
Activity; Communication of agents; Transparent Intensional Logic; Natural language processing; Sentences in different tenses.
Author
Marie Duží
Affiliation
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
Address
Department of Computer Science FEI, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Received
5 September 2022
Revised
11 November 2022
Accepted
9 December 2022
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Duží, M. (2023). Specification of Agents’ Activities in Past, Present and Future. Organon F, 30(1), 66–101. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30105
Chicago
Duží, Marie. 2023. "Specification of Agents’ Activities in Past, Present and Future." Organon F 30 (1): 66–101. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30105
Harvard
Duží, M. (2023). Specification of Agents’ Activities in Past, Present and Future. Organon F, 30(1), pp. 66–101. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30105
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