@inproceedings{bell97agent,
	title = {Dynamic goal hierarchies},
	address = {Cairns, Australia},
	author = {John Bell and Zhisheng Huang},
	booktitle = {Workshop on Intelligent Agent Systems: Theoretical and Practical Issues},
	journal = {LNCS},
	month = {August},
	pages = {88--103},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62686-7_30},
	volume = {1209},
	year = {1996},
	biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d85f53012722af1944d9c3471de09841/neilernst},
	description = {SpringerLink - Book Chapter},
	abstract = {In this paper we introduce and formalise dynamic goal hierarchies. We begin with a formal definition of goals, according to which they are rational desires. In particular, we require that an agent's goals are coherent; that is, that the agent believes that each goal is jointly realisable with all of the goals which the agent considers to be more important. Thus an agent's goals form a hierarchy, and new goals are defined with reference to it. We then show how preferential entailment can be used to formalise the rational revision of goals and goal hierarchies.
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	keywords = {goal revision }
}