Paper Info
Title
A General Framework for Parallel BDI Agents
Abstract
The traditional BDI agent has 3 basic computational components that generate beliefs, generate intentions and execute intentions. They run in a sequential and cyclic manner. This may introduce several problems. Among them, the inability to watch the environment continuously in dynamic environments may be disastrous. There is also no support for goal and intention reconsideration and consideration of relationships between goals at the architecture level. A parallel BDI agent architecture was proposed in [15] and evaluated in [16]. Based on the work in [15] and [16], we propose in this paper, a general framework for the parallel BDI agent model. Under this general framework, parallel BDI agents with different configurations depending on the availability of physical resources may be built. These agents have a number of advantages over the sequential one: 1. changes in the agent's environment can be detected immediately; 2. emergencies will be dealt with immediately; 3. the support is provided at the architecture level for reconsideration of desires/intentions and the consideration of goal relationships when a new belief/desire is generated. We show some example parallel BDI agents with different configurations under the framework and their performance in a set of experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/IAT.2006.8
IAT
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
architecture level,parallel bdi agent model,different configuration,traditional bdi agent,parallel bdi agents,parallel bdi agent architecture,general framework,goal relationship,dynamic environment,bdi agent,parallel bdi agent,intelligent agent,multi agent systems
Conference
0-7695-2748-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.54
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huiliang Zhang1426.89
Shell Ying Huang216119.52