Agents With Uncertainty
Uncertainty is ubiquitous in any problem-solving domain (except maybe puzzles)
- Initial state
- Don’t know whether or not a full fuel drum will be available
- Don’t know the contents of every document on the web
- Plenty we don’t know about a patient’s internal state
- Effects of actions
- Sometimes actions just fail
- We often don’t know every precondition and every effect of every action
- Exogenous events
- Other agents or forces change the world out from under us