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Complex Reactivity with Preferences in Rule-Based Agents

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Rules on the Web: Research and Applications (RuleML 2012)

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In this paper, we extend our previous work on complex reaction in rule-based logical agents. In particular, we introduce the possibility of defining and exploiting complex preferences for choosing the course of action to undertake in response to external events, also based upon a (simplified) form of modal reasoning and on sequences of past events.

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Costantini, S., De Gasperis, G. (2012). Complex Reactivity with Preferences in Rule-Based Agents. In: Bikakis, A., Giurca, A. (eds) Rules on the Web: Research and Applications. RuleML 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32689-9_13

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