Boutilier, C., "Conditional goals: The influence of knowledge and ability on obligations," submitted.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....to apply Eqs. 14) and (15) to the usual decision theoretic tasks of selecting an optimal action or an optimal information gathering strategy [15, Chapter 6] Example 1: To demonstrate the use of Eq. 15) let us examine the assertability of If it is cloudy you ought to take an umbrella [3]. We assume three atomic propositions, c Cloudy , r Rain , and u Having an Umbrella , which form eight worlds, each corresponding to a complete truth assignment to c; r; and u. To express our belief that rain does not normally occur in a clear day, we assign a value of 1 (indicating ....

....on (e) turn it off (A) taking (37) literally (without introducing temporal indices) would yield absurd results. Additionally, Poole s is a calculus of incremental improvements of utility, while ours is concerned with substantial improvements, as is typical of obligation statements. Boutilier [3] has developed a modal logic account of obligations which embodies considerations similar to ours. It remains to be seen whether causal relationships such as those governing the interplay among actions and observations can easily be encoded into his formalism. Acknowledgements This work ....

Boutilier, C., "Conditional goals: The influence of knowledge and ability on obligations," submitted.

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