Abstract
Intelligent agents increasingly need to be aware of the social aspects of their context in order to take the appropriate action. However, existing techniques and platforms only provide partial solutions for this problem which do not take into account the full consequences of the social context. In this paper we propose to use ideas from social practice theory to support reasoning about action and planning in a social context.
We argue that putting social practices at the heart of the deliberation rather than use them as yet another aspect to be taken care of in the practical planning allows for more efficient planning. We provide a sketch of how this architecture provides some structure in the complexity of the deliberation process and balances between pro-active and reactive behaviour. The approach is demonstrated in a scenario taken from emergency management.
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Dignum, V., Dignum, F. (2015). Contextualized Planning Using Social Practices. In: Ghose, A., Oren, N., Telang, P., Thangarajah, J. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X. COIN 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9372. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_3
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