Intention reconsideration is a central challenge in BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) theory. The intention reconsideration models of the early nineties focus on when a commitment may be reconsidered, for example when it has been achieved, when it is no longer achievable, or when the associated goal has been dropped. In this paper, we create an abstract framework in which we add the "reasons" and the "assumptions" that form the base of those commitments. Reasons are an abstract category of cognitive attitudes that motivate something else, including goals, principles, norms, intentions, and actions. To make our mechanism widely applicable, we introduce an abstract approach and 10 requirements from both early and more recent approaches, such as the model of Icard et al., focusing on the interaction between beliefs and changing commitments. Moreover, we do not focus only on an intention's reconsideration, but also on the effects. To that end, we introduce an intention reconsideration mechanism with algorithms satisfying the requirements, using only the dichotomy between assumptions and reasons.
['Diana Marosin', 'Leendert W. N. van der Torre']
Changing Commitments Based on Reasons and Assumptions