AgentSpeak(PL): A New Programming Language for BDI Agents with Integrated Bayesian Network Model

Author

Silva, Diego Gonçalves ; Gluz, João Carlos

Author_Institution

Programa de Pos-Grad. em Comput. Aplic., Univ. do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

26-29 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Within the current BDI paradigm of agent oriented programming, it is not possible to develop a practical and straightforward software when agent´s beliefs are based on probabilistic knowledge related to their environment, because the logical base of the programming language do not allow this possibility. Usually, to develop this kind of hybrid agent, it is necessary to make use of advanced programming techniques, which combine and integrate different development environments and programming languages in order to represent the logical part and the probabilistic part of the model, to make implementation feasible. This work presents a new agentoriented programming language called AgentSpeak(PL), based in AgentSpeak(L), a classical BDI programming language. AgentSpeak(PL) integrates the concept of probabilistic beliefs through the use of Bayesian Networks, to core BDI programming concepts. The language is implemented through an extension of the Jason programming environment.

Keywords

belief networks; multi-agent systems; programming languages; AgentSpeak; BDI agents; Jason programming environment; agent oriented programming; integrated Bayesian network model; programming language; Bayesian methods; Cognition; Computer languages; Estimation; Probabilistic logic; Programming; Semantics; AgentSpeak; Agents; Bayesian Networks; Jason; Probability; Programming Languages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Applications (ICISA), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9222-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-9223-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISA.2011.5930301

Filename

5930301