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Reflections on Agent Beliefs

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Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies V (DALT 2007)

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Some issues concerning beliefs of agents are discussed. These issues are the general syntactic form of beliefs, the logic underlying beliefs, acquiring beliefs, and reasoning with beliefs. The logical setting is more expressive and aspects of the reasoning and acquisition processes are more general than are usually considered.

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Matteo Baldoni Tran Cao Son M. Birna van Riemsdijk Michael Winikoff

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Lloyd, J.W., Ng, K.S. (2008). Reflections on Agent Beliefs. In: Baldoni, M., Son, T.C., van Riemsdijk, M.B., Winikoff, M. (eds) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies V. DALT 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4897. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77564-5_8

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