{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-rationale-behind-the-concept-of-goal","title":"The Rationale behind the Concept of Goal","arxiv_id":"1512.04021","date":"2015-12-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Guido Governatori","Francesco Olivieri","Simone Scannapieco","Antonino Rotolo","Matteo Cristani"],"abstract":"The paper proposes a fresh look at the concept of goal and advances that\nmotivational attitudes like desire, goal and intention are just facets of the\nbroader notion of (acceptable) outcome. We propose to encode the preferences of\nan agent as sequences of \"alternative acceptable outcomes\". We then study how\nthe agent's beliefs and norms can be used to filter the mental attitudes out of\nthe sequences of alternative acceptable outcomes. Finally, we formalise such\nintuitions in a novel Modal Defeasible Logic and we prove that the resulting\nformalisation is computationally feasible.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.04021v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.04021v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-rationale-behind-the-concept-of-goal","repo_url":"https://github.com/hhyao00/defeasible-extension","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}