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Developed a formal theory of intention in terms of choices, commitments, beliefs, goals and actions, with properties intended to distinguish persistent intentions from ordinary goals.
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The record is the exact two-author 1990 Artificial Intelligence paper. Its conclusions follow within the paper's modal and action-theoretic framework; it is not an empirical cognitive model and does not absorb later BDI architectures or all multi-agent intention theories.
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Philip R. Cohen; Hector J. Levesque
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Cohen and Levesque: intention is choice with commitment
Developed a formal theory of intention in terms of choices, commitments, beliefs, goals and actions, with properties intended to distinguish persistent intentions from ordinary goals.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1990 Artificial Intelligence paper. Its conclusions follow within the paper's modal and action-theoretic framework; it is not an empirical cognitive model and does not absorb later BDI architectures or all multi-agent intention theories.
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People and systems
Philip R. Cohen; Hector J. Levesque
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.