Special issue on goal reasoning

What is it about?

This collection of papers illustrates the importance of the explicit capacity to reason about goals as well as behavior. Such capability reflects a particular human characteristic that distinguishes us from other species in terms of abstract reasoning about what is desirable in the future and the options we have to affect it. The objective of this special issue is to highlight some of the progress made on this topic for computational systems and to enlarge the scope of discussion concerning the potential benefits and costs that such research implies.

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Why is it important?

This research is important because it represents a high-level cognitive approach to intelligent systems and autonomous agents that complements and enhances the more data-driven techniques widely used in the field of artificial intelligence.