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The main objective of this work is to develop a multi-modal logic of Intention and Attempt. We call this logic LIA. All formal results are focused on the notion of attempt. We substitute the dynamic molecular notion action by his atomic constituent attempt and define the former from the latter. The relations between attempts, goals, beliefs and present-directed intentions are studied. A section of the paper is devoted to the analysis of the relations of our modal logic with a situation calculus-style approach.
We thank the anonymous referees of this paper for their helpful comments.
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Lorini, E., Herzig, A., Castelfranchi, C. (2006). Introducing Attempt in a Modal Logic of Intentional Action. In: Fisher, M., van der Hoek, W., Konev, B., Lisitsa, A. (eds) Logics in Artificial Intelligence. JELIA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11853886_24
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