Desires, goals, intentions, and values: Computational architectures

The modelling of motivational mental representations such as desires, goals, intentions and values, and their integration in a cognitive architecture is a topic of crucial interest to both Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science in general. This special issue aims to foster an integrative and bridge-building work among students from different disciplines interested in the interrelations among cognitive, motivational, decisional, rational, and emotional aspects of the mind. Contributions from the following domains are included: cognitive modelling, including psychologically oriented computer modelling, and models from the psychology of action, linking cognition and motivation to the control of goal-directed behavior; formal approaches to mental states (like logics of beliefs, intention, and action) and their interrelations and dynamics; AI, computational intelligence, and robotic models and architectures of cognitive agents, including "autonomous agents", and hybrid and layered architectures.