On the Life-Cycle of BDI Agent Goals

Thangarajah, J.; Harland, J.; Morley, D.; and Yorke-Smith, N. On the Life-Cycle of BDI Agent Goals. Proceedings of ECAI'10, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2010.

Abstract: Deliberation over courses of action to pursue is fundamental to agent systems. We develop a rich and detailed specification of the appropriate operational behaviour when a goal is pursued, succeeded or failed, aborted, suspended, or resumed. The three key contributions of our generic framework for goal states and transitions are (1) to encompass both goals of accomplishment and rich goals of monitoring, (2) to provide the first specification of abort and suspend for all the common goal types, and (3) to account for plan execution as well as the dynamics of sub-goaling.

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