Efficient multi-agent epistemic planning: Teaching planners about nested belief

Autor: Sheila A. McIlraith, Tim Miller, Christian Muise, Liz Sonenberg, Vaishak Belle, Adrian R. Pearce, Paolo Felli
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Muise, C, Belle, V, Felli, P, McIlraith, S, Miller, T, Pearce, A R & Sonenberg, L 2022, ' Efficient Multi-agent Epistemic Planning: Teaching Planners About Nested Belief ', Artificial Intelligence, vol. 302, 103605 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103605
ISSN: 0004-3702
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2021.103605
Popis: Many AI applications involve the interaction of multiple autonomous agents, requiring those agents to reason about their own beliefs, as well as those of other agents. However, planning involving nested beliefs is known to be computationally challenging. In this work, we address the task of synthesizing plans that necessitate reasoning about the beliefs of other agents. We plan from the perspective of a single agent with the potential for goals and actions that involve nested beliefs, non-homogeneous agents, co-present observations, and the ability for one agent to reason as if it were another. We formally characterize our notion of planning with nested belief, and subsequently demonstrate how to automatically convert such problems into problems that appeal to classical planning technology for solving efficiently. Our approach represents an important step towards applying the well-established field of automated planning to the challenging task of planning involving nested beliefs of multiple agents.
Published in Special Issue of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) on Epistemic Planning
Databáze: OpenAIRE