A virtual prolog approach to implementing beliefs, desires and intentions in animat agents

  • Authors:

  • K. A. Hawick;H. A. James;C. J. Scogings

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Science, Massey University Albany, Auckland, New Zealand;Computer Science, Massey University Albany, Auckland, New Zealand;Computer Science, Massey University Albany, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • AI'05 Proceedings of the 18th Australian Joint conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Simulating a system of agents that navigate in a physical space is a challenging problem when the environment is sophisticated and the number of agents involved is large. We describe experiments in establishing a “virtual Prolog engine” in each agent in a simulation and the scalability and performance issues with such an approach. We report on experiments with a simple predator-prey animat model and discuss how this approach allows us to impart a degree of reasoning and intelligence to what are otherwise very simple animat agents.