POLITICS: Automated ideological reasoning Jaime G. Carbonell 10.1184/R1/6608459.v1 https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/journal_contribution/POLITICS_Automated_ideological_reasoning/6608459 POLITICS is a system of computer programs which simulates humans in comprehending and responding to world events from a given political or ideological perspective. The primary theoretical motivations were: (1) the implementation of a functional system which applies the knowledge structures of Schank and Abelson (1977) to the domain of simulating political belief systems; (2) the development of a tentative theory of intentional goal conflicts and counterplanning. Secondary goals of the POLITICS project include developing a representation for belief systems, investigating cognitive processes such as goal-directed inferencing, and the integration of several types of knowledge representations into a functional system. 1998-08-01 00:00:00 computer sciences