Defining BDI with Abstract Languages

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Burkhard, Hans-Dieter

Affiliations: Institute of Informatics, Humboldt University Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany hdb@informatik.hu-berlin.de

Abstract: Mental attributes of agents are investigated in a framework of transition systems and abstract languages. The mental attitudes are related to beliefs, desires/goals and intentions/plans which are known from so-called BDI-architectures. Actions and events are more stressed than states. This allows the consideration of global and individual aspects of belief, desire, intentions etc. in a simple unified formalism.

Keywords: Agent-Oriented Programming, Multi-Agent Systems, BDI-Architecture

DOI: 10.3233/FI-1997-313403

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 237-252, 1997