id: 06105877
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an: 06105877
au: Hindriks, Koen V.
ti: Debugging is explaining.
so: Rahwan, Iyad (ed.) et al., PRIMA 2012: Principles and practice of
    multi-agent systems. 15th international conference, Kuching, Sarawak,
    Malaysia, September 3‒7, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN
    978-3-642-32728-5/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7455. Lecture
    Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 31-45 (2012).
py: 2012
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: EN
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li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32729-2_3
ab: Summary: Debugging is a process of finding and reducing the number of bugs,
    or defects, in a program. A defect typically is detected because the
    program generates unexpected behaviour. In order to locate the cause of
    a defect, it therefore is essential to explain why this behaviour is
    generated. In this paper, we propose a new debugging approach for
    agent-oriented programming that exploits the structure and basic
    concepts that are used in logic-based agent programs for providing
    answers to some of such why questions. Our approach is based on the
    fact that the behaviour of an agent-oriented program can be traced back
    to basically two sources. First, agents derive their choice of action
    from their beliefs and goals ‒ two fundamental programming concepts
    in agent-oriented programming. These folk psychological concepts
    provide reasons for doing something. Second, agent programs are
    rule-based programs and the evaluation of rules to a large extent
    determines the program’s behaviour.
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