Lecturer to speak on BDI models
Guest lecturer David Israel, program director in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, will be at the School of Information for a talk on “BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) Models and the Background — and Reception — of the BIP (Bratman-Israel-Pollack) Model.”
The talk will be from noon-1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9 in the Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall.
More than 20 years ago, Israel, Michael Bratman, and Dean Martha E. Pollack wrote a paper on “Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning” that has been credited with playing an important role in the development within AI of so-called BDI models of agents.
In this talk, Israel will take you behind the scenes, laying out what he then took, and still takes, to be the background and wider theoretical context in which the BIP paper should be read. As he puts it, he will “even spend a little time bemoaning the failure of the field to take proper account of the argument of the paper; that complaint will focus particularly on what has come to be the consensus understanding of BDI models. Needless to say, I will be presenting only my own views; neither B nor P should be held in any way responsible.”
Over the past 10 years, Israel has been involved in helping direct a number of large government-funded research projects.
Tags: BDI Models, SRI International
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