Commitments, Expectations, Affordances and Susceptibilities: Towards Positional Agent Programming

Abstract

Abstract. The paper introduces an agent architecture centered around the notions of commitment, expectation, affordance, and susceptibility. These components are to a certain measure at the base of any agent system, however, inspired by research in explanation-based decision making, this contribution attempts to make explicit and start organizing under the same operationalization neglected figures as negative commitment, negative expectation, etc.

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“…Behavioural compliance and ecological validity are closely related (Casanovas and Oboler 2018 Sileno (2016, 161 and ff. ), Sileno et al (2014Sileno et al ( , 2015. 58 Pitt and Diaconescu draw from Koestler's notion of 'holon' (something that is simultaneously a whole and a part): "a holonic system (or holarchy) is composed of "a holonic system (or holarchy) is composed of interrelated subsystems, each of which are in turn composed of sub-subsystems and so on, recursively, until reaching a lowest level of 'elementary' subsystems" (ibid.…”

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“…The agent-role model shares elements with those used in intention-recognition studies, and in particular with those based on logic approaches-see Sadri (2012) for an overview-which have grown out of traditional AI accounts of story understanding and abduction. However, from a conceptual point of view, the ''first principles'' we are considering with agent-roles are not simple rules, but knowledge structures building upon practical reasoning constructs (Sileno et al 2015) and institutional positions (Sileno et al 2014c). More importantly, agent-roles are defined not only by a script, but also by a topology.…”

“…To have a better focus, we have neglected many other practical and theoretical aspects that have been investigated in parallel, and that should be taken into account to get the full picture. For instance, for the representation of agent-roles, we have identified fundamental normative components in positions, defined towards another party, in the tradition of Hohfeld's analytic framework (Sileno et al 2014c), and towards the environment, for practical reasoning purposes (Sileno et al 2015). We have investigated the acquisition of agent-roles starting from UML-like diagrams (Sileno et al 2014a) and from interpretations of narratives (Sileno et al 2014d).…”