Agent Planning Process

A Agent Planning Process is a planning process that can be applied by a cognitive agent to solve an agent planning task (intended achieves agent goal).

• AKA: Forethought.
• Context:
  • output: an Agent's Plan.
  • It can range from being a Near-Term Goal Agent Planning Process to being a Long-Term Goal Agent Planning Process.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Organizational Planning.
• See: Preparation (Principle), Achieve Agent Goal, Forecasting.

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References

2006

• (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006) ⇒ Peter M. Gollwitzer, and Paschal Sheeran. (2006). “Implementation Intentions and Goal Achievement: A Meta-analysis of Effects and Processes.” In: Advances in experimental social psychology, 38.
  • QUOTE: Holding a strong goal intention (“I intend to reach Z!”) does not guarantee goal achievement, because people may fail to deal effectively with self-regulatory problems during goal striving. This review analyzes whether realization of goal intentions is facilitated by forming an implementation intention that spells out the when, where, and how of goal striving in advance (“If situation Y is encountered, then I will initiate goal‐directed behavior X!”).

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