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Situation calculus with concurrent events and narrative


Author(s) : John Mccarthy, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1995
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Abstract : If this version is relevant, you may cite it. Concurrent events are treated merely by not forbidding them. Narrative is treated as a collection of situations and events and relations among them. Narrative is easier than planning, because it does not require that the effects of events be guaranteed. Prediction is harder than planning, because it requires that the actions be inferred from the motives of the actors. 1 Introduction?Objectives of Situation Calculus The logic approach to AI ([McCarthy, 1959] and [McCarthy, 1989]) is to make a computer program that represents what it knows about the world in general, what it knows about the situation it is in, and also,