The Psi Calculus: An Algebraic Agent Language

  • Authors:
  • David Kinny

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

驴 is a novel algebraic language for the specification of agents, such as BDI agents, which employ a sense-compute-act computation cycle and stored plan execution as the basis of agent behaviour. It generalizes and extends agent architectures such as PRS and dMARS in several ways, and possesses a complete operational semantics covering all aspects of agent computation from intention step execution to the top-level control cycle. This is specified uniformly in process algebraic style by rewrite rules, and has certain safety, guarantee and compositionality properties which facilitate reasoning about agent program behaviour.