Bridging the gap between deontic logic and qualitative decision theory

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: FMBI972315

Project closed

Start date 1 December 1997

End date 30 November 1998

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER DE TOULOUSE III
France

Objective

Research objectives and content
Deontic logic is a branch of modal logic that formalizes reasoning about obligations and Qualitative Decision Theory (QDT) is an area of artificial intelligence that explores expected utility that is representable using qualitative preferences and probabilities. There is a structural similarity between deontic logic and logics for QDT, which suggests that deontic logic can be used in a theory of QDT. However, both logics are based on different perspectives. Obligations are exogenous (they are imposed by a legal or moral code) while desires in logics for QDT are endogenous (coming from the agent). This is what we call the gap between deontic logic and QDT. The research objective is to bridge this gap such that deontic logic can be used in QDT.
Training content (objective, benefit and expected impact)
IRIT is the best centre in Europe for my present interest to study QDT. Moreover, there is mutual benefit of the visit, because my research on preference-based deontic logic and the research on QDT of Jerome Lang of IRIT are presently influencing each other. During the visit we can combine our knowledge,and I expect a long-term cooperation with a set of joint papers.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › artificial intelligence

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Programme(s)

• FP4-TMR - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0302 - Post-doctoral research training grants
• TM31 - Knowledge Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER DE TOULOUSE III

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Route de Narbonne 118 ; 31062 TOULOUSE ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

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Netherlands

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