A Formal Model of Emotions: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects

Authors:
Bas R. Steunebrink;Mehdi Dastani;John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Affiliations:
Utrecht University, The Netherlands. bass@cs.uu.nl;Utrecht University, The Netherlands. mehdi@cs.uu.nl;Utrecht University, The Netherlands. jj@cs.uu.nl
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2008

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Abstract

When constructing a formal model of emotions for intelligent agents, two types of aspects have to be taken into account. First, qualitative aspects pertain to the conditions that elicit emotions. Second, quantitative aspects pertain to the actual experience and intensity of elicited emotions. In this paper, we show how the qualitative aspects of a well-known psychological model of human emotions can be formalized in an agent specification language and how its quantitative aspects can be integrated into this model. Furthermore, we discuss several unspecified details and implicit assumptions in the psychological model that are explicated by this effort.