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SITUATION CALCULUS WITH CONCURRENT EVENTS AND NARRATIVE

John McCarthy, Stanford University

April 27, 2000

Abstract:

Concurrent events are treated merely by not forbidding them. Narrative is treated as a collection of situations and events and relations among them. Narrative is easier than planning, because it does not require that the effects of events be guaranteed. Prediction is harder than planning, because it requires that the actions be inferred from the motives of the actors.





John McCarthy
Thu Apr 27 22:02:22 PDT 2000