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An operational semantics for a fragment of PRS

de Silva, Lavindra; Meneguzzi, Felipe; Logan, Brian

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Lavindra de Silva

Felipe Meneguzzi

Brian Logan



Abstract

The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is arguably the first implementation of the Belief–Desire–Intention (BDI) approach to agent programming. PRS remains extremely influential, directly or indirectly inspiring the development of subsequent BDI agent programming languages. However, perhaps surprisingly given its centrality in the BDI paradigm, PRS lacks a formal operational semantics, making it difficult to determine its expressive power relative to other agent programming languages. This paper takes a first step towards closing this gap, by giving a formal semantics for a significant fragment of PRS. We prove key properties of the semantics relating to PRS-specific programming constructs, and show that even the fragment of PRS we consider is strictly more expressive than the plan constructs found in typical BDI languages.

Citation

de Silva, L., Meneguzzi, F., & Logan, B. (2018). An operational semantics for a fragment of PRS.

Conference Name 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
End Date Jul 19, 2018
Acceptance Date Apr 16, 2018
Publication Date Jul 18, 2018
Deposit Date Jul 16, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/947246
Related Public URLs https://www.ijcai-18.org/

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