Conflicting goals in agent-oriented programming

An important feature of goal-oriented programming languages is that agents are able to easily pursue multiple goals concurrently. However, there is an issue when some concurrent goals may conflict with others. Pursuing conflicting goals concurrently can lead an agent to undesirable behavior, in which case pursuing them concurrently should be avoided. In this paper, we address some such problems ranging from how to specify conflicts among goals to handling conflicts at run-time when they are detected.

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