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Have a Break from Making Decisions, Have a MARS: The Multi-valued Action Reasoning System

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Artificial Intelligence XXXIX (SGAI-AI 2022)

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The Multi-valued Action Reasoning System (MARS) is an automated value-based ethical decision-making model for agents in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Given a set of available actions and an underlying moral paradigm, by employing MARS one can identify the ethically preferred action. It can be used to implement and model different ethical theories, different moral paradigms, as well as combinations of such, in the context of automated practical reasoning and normative decision analysis. It can also be used to model moral dilemmas and discover the moral paradigms that result in the desired outcomes therein. In this paper we give a condensed description of MARS, explain its uses, and comparatively place it in the existing literature.

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Badea, C. (2022). Have a Break from Making Decisions, Have a MARS: The Multi-valued Action Reasoning System. In: Bramer, M., Stahl, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence XXXIX. SGAI-AI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13652. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21441-7_31

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