Artificial Intelligence
AgentSpeak(L): BDI agents speak out in a logical computable language
MAAMAW '96 Proceedings of the 7th European workshop on Modelling autonomous agents in a multi-agent world : agents breaking away: agents breaking away
Plan patterns for declarative goals in AgentSpeak
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Electronic contracting in aircraft aftercare: a case study
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Composing high-level plans for declarative agent programming
DALT'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Declarative agent languages and technologies V
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BDI agent languages provide a useful abstraction for complex systems comprised of interactive autonomous entities, but they have been used mostly in the context of single agents with a static plan library of behaviours invoked reactively. These languages provide a theoretically sound basis for agent design but are very limited in providing direct support for autonomy and societal cooperation needed for large scale systems. Some techniques for autonomy and cooperation have been explored in the past in ad hoc implementations, but not incorporated in any agent language. In order to address these shortcomings we extend the well known AgentSpeak(L) BDI agent language to include behaviour generation through planning, declarative goals and motivated goal adoption. We also develop a language-specific multiagent cooperation scheme and, to address potential problems arising from autonomy in a multiagent system, we extend our agents with a mechanism for norm processing leveraging existing theoretical work. These extensions allow for greater autonomy in the resulting systems, enabling them to synthesise new behaviours at runtime and to cooperate in non-scripted patterns.