@inproceedings{a180060a26c24b549e492fc809f85db0,
title = "Towards a Motivation-Based Approach for Evaluating Goals",
abstract = "Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in which a goal state can only be partially satisfied. In these situations the traditional symbolic goal representation needs modifying in order that an agent can determine a worth value of a goal state and also of any state approximating the goal. In our work we use the concept of worth in two ways. First, we propose a mechanism by which the worth of a goal is dynamically set as a function of the intensity of an underlying motivation. Second, we determine the worth of any state in relation to a goal through the use of a metric by which we can measure the proximity of an environmental state to a goal. In this way, it is possible to make judgements about the relative satisfaction an environmental state offers in regard to a goal.",
keywords = "Decision making, Goal Generation, Motivation",
author = "Steve Munroe and Michael Luck and Mark D'Inverno",
year = "2003",
month = jul,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1145/860575.860802",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781581136838",
series = "Proceedings of the international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
pages = "1074--1075",
booktitle = "AAMAS '03: Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems",
address = "United States",
edition = "1st",
note = "2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2003 ; Conference date: 14-07-2003 Through 18-07-2003",
}