ABSTRACT

IMPLEMENTING SYSTEMS OF AUTONOMOUS AGENTS WITH BELIEFS, DESIRES AND INTENTIONS

Rafael Bordini Informatics Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

utonomous agents are commonly equipped (at least on paper) with beliefs, desires and intentions. This "BDI model" is now standard. AgentSpeak(L) is a notional programming language for BDI agents, bridging the gap between BDI logics and implemented BDI systems. Despite its neat and elegant features, though, and its potential for direct programming of cognitive multi-agent systems, AgentSpeak(L) has had no interpreter or compiler until now. This has retarded the development of applications in which the best features of the autonomous-agent approach are exploited.

The seminar describes how to turn AgentSpeak(L) agents into running programs with the help of Sloman's SIM_AGENT software toolkit. Our result is an interpreter SIM_Speak, which we can illustrate via a successful multi-agent traffic simulation. The seminar will also cover possible extensions to SIM_Speak, and future possibilities for its use.

(the work reported is in collaboration with Rodrigo Machado)

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