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A formal theory of plan recognition

Year: 1987
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The problem of recognizing an agent's plans arises in many contexts in work in artificial intelligence. The plan recognition techniques suggested in the literature are rarely formally justified. We view plan recognition as a special kind of non-monotonic reasoning, and demonstrate how formal techniques developed for such reasoning-- namely, circumscription and minimal entailment-- can be used in plan recognition. The first half of this paper reviews a broad range of work in artificial intelligence and philosophy which relates to plan recognition. A formal treatment of a simple case of plan recognition follows, and the paper concludes with proposals for future extensions of this
Author: Henry Kautz
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1558822720
Cites: 48
Cited by: 234
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