  Agents act to bring about a state of the world that is more compatible with
their personal or institutional values. To formalise this intuition, the paper
proposes an action framework based on the STRIPS formalisation. Technically,
the contribution expresses actions in terms of Value-based Formal Reasoning
(VFR), which provides a set of propositions derived from an Agent's value
profile and the Agent's assessment of propositions with respect to the profile.
Conceptually, the contribution provides a computational framework for a form of
consequentialist ethics which is satisficing, luralistic, act-based, and
preferential.
