Formal Modelling of Emotions in BDI Agents

  • Authors:
  • David Pereira;Eugénio Oliveira;Nelma Moreira

  • Affiliations:
  • DCC-FC & LIACC, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 4169-007;DEEC-FE & LIACC, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 4200-465;DCC-FC & LIACC, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 4169-007

  • Venue:
  • Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Emotional-BDI agents are BDI agents whose behaviour is guided not only by beliefs, desires and intentions, but also by the role of emotions in reasoning and decision-making. The $\mathcal{E}_{\rm BDI}$ logic is a formal system for expressing the concepts of the Emotional-BDI model of agency. In this paper we present an improved version of the $\mathcal{E}_{\rm BDI}$ logic and show how it can be used to model the role of three emotions in Emotional-BDI agents: fear , anxiety and self-confidence . We also focus in the computational properties of $\mathcal{E}_{\rm BDI}$ which can lead to its use in automated proof systems.