"It's not just goals all the way down" - "it's activities all the way down"

  • Authors:
  • Maarten Sierhuis

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA Ames Research Center, CA

  • Venue:
  • ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The rational agent community uses Michael Bratman's planning theory of intention as its theoretical foundation for the development of its agent-oriented BDI languages. We present an alternative framework based on situated action and activity theory, combining both BDI and activity-based modeling, to provide a more general agent framework. We describe an activity-based, as opposed to a goal-based, BDI language and agent architecture, and provide an example that shows the flexibility of this language compared to a goal-based language.