Computational logic foundations of KGP agents

  • Authors:
  • Antonis Kakas;Paolo Mancarella;Fariba Sadri;Kostas Stathis;Francesca Toni

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy;Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK;Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK;Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents the computational logic foundations of a model of agency called the KGP (Knowledge, Goals and Plan) model. This model allows the specification of heterogeneous agents that can interact with each other, and can exhibit both proactive and reactive behaviour allowing them to function in dynamic environments by adjusting their goals and plans when changes happen in such environments. KGP provides a highly modular agent architecture that integrates a collection of reasoning and physical capabilities, synthesised within transitions that update the agent's state in response to reasoning, sensing and acting. Transitions are orchestrated by cycle theories that specify the order in which transitions are executed while taking into account the dynamic context and agent preferences, as well as selection operators for providing inputs to transitions.