Intention Maintenance as Conflict Resolution upon a Means-Network

This paper presents a model for intention maintenance. It assumes that anintention is associated with a means network, and intention maintenance is aconflict resolution upon means networks. The difference between the viewpointsof AI planning and intention maintenance is explained first, then a model ofintention, the conditions under which conflicts between the means occur andthe algorithms for determining the influence of removing a means awny from ameans network are presented.