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In most common settings of Markov Decision Process (MDP), an agent evaluate a policy based on expectation of (discounted) sum of rewards. However in many applications this criterion might not be suitable from two perspective: first, in risk…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Yan Li , Zhaohan Sun

The paper proposes a fresh look at the concept of goal and advances that motivational attitudes like desire, goal and intention are just facets of the broader notion of (acceptable) outcome. We propose to encode the preferences of an agent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Guido Governatori , Francesco Olivieri , Simone Scannapieco , Antonino Rotolo , Matteo Cristani

This paper shows that the fuzzy temporal logic can model figures of thought to describe decision-making behaviors. In order to exemplify, some economic behaviors observed experimentally were modeled from problems of choice containing time,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-18 José Cláudio do Nascimento

When trying to solve a computational problem, we are often faced with a choice between algorithms that are guaranteed to return the right answer but differ in their runtime distributions (e.g., SAT solvers, sorting algorithms). This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Devon R. Graham , Kevin Leyton-Brown , Tim Roughgarden

Many decision-making problems feature multiple objectives. In such problems, it is not always possible to know the preferences of a decision-maker for different objectives. However, it is often possible to observe the behavior of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Junlin Lu , Patrick Mannion , Karl Mason

We present Logical Robots, an interactive multi-agent simulation platform where autonomous robot behavior is specified declaratively in the logic programming language Logica. Robot behavior is defined by logical predicates that map…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Evgeny Skvortsov , Yilin Xia , Ojaswa Garg , Shawn Bowers , Bertram Ludäscher

The logics of knowledge are modal logics that have been shown to be effective in representing and reasoning about knowledge in multi-agent domains. Relatively few computational frameworks for dealing with computation of models and useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Chitta Baral , Gregory Gelfond , Enrico Pontelli , Tran Cao Son

We present DCL-PC: a logic for reasoning about how the abilities of agents and coalitions of agents are altered by transferring control from one agent to another. The logical foundation of DCL-PC is CL-PC, a logic for reasoning about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Wiebe van der Hoek , Dirk Walther , Michael Wooldridge

Thanks to the remarkable human-like capabilities of machine learning (ML) models in perceptual and cognitive tasks, frameworks integrating ML within rational agent architectures are gaining traction. Yet, the landscape remains fragmented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Andrea Agiollo , Andrea Omicini

The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and extraction to reduce the volume of data presented to the user.…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jan Chomicki

In this paper, our aim is to briefly survey and articulate the logical and philosophical foundations of using (first-order) logic to represent (probabilistic) knowledge in a non-technical fashion. Our motivation is three fold. First, for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Vaishak Belle

Learning of preference models from human feedback has been central to recent advances in artificial intelligence. Motivated by the cost of obtaining high-quality human annotations, we study efficient human preference elicitation for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Subhojyoti Mukherjee , Anusha Lalitha , Kousha Kalantari , Aniket Deshmukh , Ge Liu , Yifei Ma , Branislav Kveton

Logical reasoning is a key task for artificial intelligence due to it's role in major downstream tasks such as Question Answering, Summarization. Recent methods in improving the reasoning ability of LLMs fall short in correctly converting a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Koushik Viswanadha , Deepanway Ghosal , Somak Aditya

There has been considerable work on reasoning about the strategic ability of agents under imperfect information. However, existing logics such as Probabilistic Strategy Logic are unable to express properties relating to information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chunyan Mu , Nima Motamed , Natasha Alechina , Brian Logan

Adding interaction to logic programming is an essential task. Expressive logics such as linear logic provide a theoretical basis for such a mechanism. Unfortunately, none of the existing linear logic languages can model interactions with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-19 Keehang Kwon

Preference learning has long been studied in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in order to adapt robot behavior to specific user needs and desires. Typically, human preferences are modeled as a scalar function; however, such a formulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Austin Narcomey , Nathan Tsoi , Ruta Desai , Marynel Vázquez

When agents interact with humans, either through embodied agents or because they are embedded in a robot, it would be easy if they could use fixed interaction protocols as they do with other agents. However, people do not keep fixed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Stephen Cranefield , Frank Dignum

We study existence and uniqueness of the fixed points solutions of a large class of non-linear variable discounted transfer operators associated to a sequential decision-making process. We establish regularity properties of these solutions,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-20 L. Cioletti , Elismar R. Oliveira

Recent advances in large language models have led to the rise of software systems (i.e. agents) that execute with increasing autonomy on behalf of users in open, multi-party settings, interacting with untrusted counterparts and managing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Kiran Gopinathan , Jack Feser , Michelangelo Naim , Zenna Tavares , Eli Bingham

Understanding the decisions of tree-based ensembles and their relationships is pivotal for machine learning model interpretation. Recent attempts to mitigate the human-in-the-loop interpretation challenge have explored the extraction of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Leonardo Arrighi , Luca Pennella , Gabriel Marques Tavares , Sylvio Barbon Junior