HETEROGENEOUS BDI AGENTS Ⅱ: CIRCUMSPECT AGENTS

摘要

The study of formal theories of agents has received an increasing attention in particular within the context of the BDI paradigm. An interesting theoretical issue in this framework is defining notions of realism, that is interrelations between the agent's beliefs, desires and intentions. Intuitively, each notion of realism characterises a different type of agent. In this paper we extend the BDI framework and we propose notions of realism for capturing circumspect agents, that is agents that are willing to adopt intentions only if they believe that these are achievable options. Three such notions of realism are presented which are shown to have better features than the classical notion of strong realism.