Affiliations: Department of Computing, Goldsmiths' College,
University of London, 25–27 St. James Street, New Cross, London SE14 6NW,
England, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: In Part I, the background was introduced, for the formalism proposed
in the present Part II. That background consists of: (a) an overview of the
state of the art of representing or processing narratives within artificial
intelligence, (b) the narrative of the succession war in the Mughal empire,
which led to the reign of Aurangzeb, (c) the basics of our method of
representation, (d) a survey of topics relevant to the latter, and in
particular, of computational work on argumentation. In the present Part II, we propose a formalism which captures how
Aurangzeb managed to deceive and capture his brother Murad, who had been his
ally in the succession war. Steps toward achieving Aurangzeb's goal of
capturing him included: attracting Murad into Aurangzeb's camp, reducing his
alertness by making him drink, having him sleep in a tent inside the camp,
attracting Murad's bodyguard outside that tent and overpowering him, and then
removing Murad's own weapons and binding Murad's feet in golden fetters. A
formal representation for legal or other narratives as previously introduced by
the present author [16-21,33] is augmented and integrated with a representation
for arguments, and applied to the setting into formulae of the particular
historical episode. Cognitive states are paramount, and so are perception and
communications, as well as authority relations between characters.
Keywords: Narrative, knowledge representation, deception in interaction, agents' beliefs, goals, and action, argumentation
