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Knowledge and the action description language [Ascr ]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2001

JORGE LOBO
Affiliation:
Network Computing Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA; e-mail: jlobo@research.bell-labs.com
GISELA MENDEZ
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; e-mail: gmendez@ciens.ucv.ve
STUART R. TAYLOR
Affiliation:
Raytheon Systems Company, Expeditionary Warfare & Industrial Automotive, 13532 N. Central Exp., MS 37, Dallas, TX, 75243, USA; e-mail: s-taylor5@ti.com
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Abstract

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We introduce [Ascr ]k, an extension of the action description language [Ascr ] (Gelfond and Lifschitz, 1993) to handle actions which affect knowledge. We use sensing actions to increase an agent's knowledge of the world and non-deterministic actions to remove knowledge. We include complex plans involving conditionals and loops in our query language for hypothetical reasoning. We also present a translation of [Ascr ]k domain descriptions into epistemic logic programs.This paper extends the results of the work first presented in Lobo et al. (1997).

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press