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Towards a general theory of action and time

James F. Allen
- 18 Jul 1984 - 
- Vol. 23, Iss: 2, pp 123-154
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In this article, a formalism for reasoning about actions is proposed that is based on a temporal logic, which allows a much wider range of actions to be described than with previous approaches such as the situation calculus.
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This article is published in Artificial Intelligence.The article was published on 1984-07-18. It has received 2439 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Temporal logic of actions & Situation calculus.

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An Ambient Intelligence Based Multi-Agent Architecture

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Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals

TL;DR: In this paper, an interval-based temporal logic is introduced, together with a computationally effective reasoning algorithm based on constraint propagation, which is notable in offering a delicate balance between time and space.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

TL;DR: A theory of speech acts is proposed in this article. But it is not a theory of language, it is a theory about the structure of illocutionary speech acts and not of language.
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Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of reasoning about whether a strategy will achieve a goal in a deterministic world and present a method to construct a sentence of first-order logic which will be true in all models of certain axioms if and only if a certain strategy can achieve a certain goal.