2006 HierarchicalPlanninginBDIAgentP

• (Sardina et al., 2006) ⇒ Sebastian Sardina, Lavindra de Silva, and Lin Padgham. (2006). “Hierarchical Planning in BDI Agent Programming Languages: A Formal Approach.” In: Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems. ISBN:1-59593-303-4 doi:10.1145/1160633.1160813

Subject Headings: Belief-Desire-Intention Agent System; Multi-Agent System

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Abstract

This paper provides a general mechanism and a solid theoretical basis for performing planning within Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents. BDI agent systems have emerged as one of the most widely used approaches to implementing intelligent behaviour in complex dynamic domains, in addition to which they have a strong theoretical background. However, these systems either do not include any built-in capacity for " lookahead " type of planning or they do it only at the implementation level without any precise defined semantics. In some situations, the ability to plan ahead is clearly desirable or even mandatory for ensuring success. Also, a precise definition of how planning can be integrated into a BDI system is highly desirable. By building on the underlying similarities between BDI systems and Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planners, we present a formal semantics for a BDI agent programming language which cleanly incorporates HTN-style planning as a built-in feature. We argue that the resulting integrated agent programming language combines the advantages of both BDI agent systems and hierarchical offline planners.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2006 HierarchicalPlanninginBDIAgentP	Sebastian Sardina Lavindra de Silva Lin Padgham			Hierarchical Planning in BDI Agent Programming Languages: A Formal Approach				10.1145/1160633.1160813		2006