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  1. Barták, Roman; Bell, Eric (Ed.)
    Autonomous agents often have sufficient resources to achieve the goals that are provided to them. However, in dynamic worlds where unexpected problems are bound to occur, an agent may formulate new goals with further resource requirements. Thus, agents should be smart enough to man-age their goals and the limited resources they possess in an effective and flexible manner. We present an approach to the selection and monitoring of goals using resource estimation and goal priorities. To evaluate our approach, we designed an experiment on top of our previous work in a complex mine-clearance domain. The agent in this domain formulates its own goals by retrieving a case to explain uncovered discrepancies and generating goals from the explanation. Finally, we compare the performance of our approach to two alternatives. 
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