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The Implications of Philosophical Foundations for Knowledge Representation and Learning in Agents

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Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002, AAMAS 2001)

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The purpose of this research is to show the relevance of philosophical theories to agent knowledge base (AKB) design, implementation, and behaviour. We will describe how artificial agent designers face important problems that philosophers have been working on for centuries. We will then show that it is possible to design different agents to be explicitly based on different philosophical approaches, and that doing so increases the range of agent behaviour exhibited by the system. We therefore argue that alternative, sometimes counter-intuitive, conceptions of the relationship between an agent and its environment may offer a useful starting point when considering the design of an agent knowledge base.

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  1. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA

    N. Lacey

  2. University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK

    M. H. Lee

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  1. Department of Computing, City University, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

    Eduardo Alonso

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK

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Lacey, N., Lee, M.H. (2003). The Implications of Philosophical Foundations for Knowledge Representation and Learning in Agents. In: Alonso, E., Kudenko, D., Kazakov, D. (eds) Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. AAMAS AAMAS 2002 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2636. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44826-8_14

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