Goal Directed Behaviour

• A lot of animal behaviour is goal directed.
• In particular, a lot of human behaviour is goal directed.
• I say I want to achieve something, like get a coffee, and then I set about finding ways to achieve it.
• Imagine a rule base which enabled you to achieve the goal, but still needed extra information (facts)
• The system could ask the user (not the developer) for the information it needed
• Now instead of asking all the possible information for all behaviours, I'd only have to ask the information for one method for achieving my goal.
• An easy way to look at one iteration is what rules can be applied to fulfill my goal?
• Try to apply one of them.
• If you can't apply one (because you don't have the facts), try to derive the facts.