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What is Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI)

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches
A well-established mental state model in which beliefs represent the current state of environment, desires represent the ideal state of the environment, and intentions represent the subset of the agents’ desires that it is committed to bringing about.
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Modeling and Programming by Commitment Rules in Agent Factory
Rem Collier (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Gregory M.P. O’Hare (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-402-6.ch017
Abstract
Agent-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a relatively new programming paradigm, proposed by Yoav Shoham, which views software systems as consisting of a set of agents that interact with one another to solve problems beyond their individual capabilities. Since the inception of the paradigm, a number of AOP languages have been proposed. This chapter focuses on one such language, the Agent Factory Agent Programming Language (AFAPL), a practical rule-based language that has been applied to a wide range of problem domains including robotics, virtual and mixed reality environments, and mobile computing. AFAPL is placed in context through a general introduction to the state-of-the-art in AOP. The chapter finishes with a discussion of some future trends for AOP and some concluding remarks.
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