In a normative environment, an agent’s actions are directed not only by its goals but also by the norms activated by its actions and those of other actors. The potential for conflict between agent goals and norms makes decision making challenging, in that it requires looking ahead to consider the longer-term consequences of which goal to satisfy or which norm to comply with in face of conflict. We therefore seek to determine the actions an agent should select at each point in time, taking account of its temporal goals, norms, and their conflicts. We propose a solution in which a normative planning problem is the basis for practical reasoning based on argumentation. Various types of conflict within goals, within norms, and between goals and norms are identified based on temporal properties of these entities. The properties of the best plan(s) with respect to goal achievement and norm compliance are mapped to arguments, followed by mapping their conflicts to attack between arguments, all of which are used to identify why a plan is justified.

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关于计划、维护目标和规范的基于论证的推理

在规范的环境中，代理人的行为不仅受其目标的指导，而且受其行为和其他行为者的行为所激活的规范的指导。代理目标和规范之间的潜在冲突使决策具有挑战性，因为它需要展望未来，以考虑在面对冲突时满足哪个目标或遵守哪个规范的长期后果。因此，我们试图确定智能体在每个时间点应选择的动作，同时考虑其时间目标、规范及其冲突。我们提出了一个解决方案，其中规范规划问题是基于论证的实际推理的基础。目标内、规范内以及目标与规范之间的各种类型的冲突是根据这些实体的时间属性来识别的。