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Usefulness of Information for Goal Achievement

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Abstract

This paper focuses on modelling information usefulness. More precisely, it aims at characterizing how useful a piece of information is for a cognitive agent which has some beliefs and goals. The paper presents three different approaches. We take Information Retrieval as a particular application domain and we compare some existing measures with the usefulness measure introduced in the paper.

C. da Costa Pereira—Acknowledges support of the PEPS AIRINFO project funded by the CNRS. This work has been carried out during her visit at the ONERA center of Toulouse.

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Notes

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    Proofs are omitted due to length limitation.

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    Reminder: a multiset is a set whose elements can have several occurrences, such as \(\{p, q, p\}\).

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    Such a degree should be noted \(U_{B_a,G_a}(\varphi )\) but we will note it \(U(\varphi )\) when there is no ambiguity.

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  1. ONERA, Toulouse, France

    Laurence Cholvy

  2. Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S Lab., Sophia Antipolis, France

    Célia da Costa Pereira

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  1. Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Matteo Baldoni

  2. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Mehdi Dastani

  3. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Beishui Liao

  4. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuko Sakurai

  5. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

    Rym Zalila Wenkstern

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Cholvy, L., da Costa Pereira, C. (2019). Usefulness of Information for Goal Achievement. In: Baldoni, M., Dastani, M., Liao, B., Sakurai, Y., Zalila Wenkstern, R. (eds) PRIMA 2019: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11873. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33792-6_8

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