Uniform Agent Representation . In VOTE, there was a distinction between members and groups. Members made decisions and had relationships with groups. However, members did not have relationships with other members, and groups did not make decisions. We eliminate those distinctions and only have agents.
Agents make decisions and have relationships with other agents.
A CIO deciding on a common PC platform has to consider the goals adopted from the constituencies of management, users and technical personnel. Domain Independent . We aim to separate the generic decision making and natural language generation knowledge from the domain knowledge. The core of program should be able to reason about buying stocks and bonds as well as buying Pcs. Dynamic preferences .