� Much of the interest in agents from the AI community has arisen from Shoham’s notion of agent oriented programming (AOP) � AOP a ‘new programming paradigm, based on a societal view of computation’ � The key idea that informs AOP is that of directly programming agents in terms of intentional notions like belief, commitment, and intention � The motivation behind such a proposal is that, as we humans use the intentional stance as an abstraction mechanism for representing the properties of complex systems. In the same way that we use the intentional stance to describe humans, it might be useful to use the intentional stance to program machines.
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