Introducing time in emotional behavior networks

In realistic scenarios an agent should not assume that the effects of its action are immediate. However, behavior networks have not previously been designed to model this, but rather have assumed that all effects are immediate. In this paper we introduce effect delay time and time-discounting into the decision making module of our agent architecture. We describe the previous emotional behavior network, introduce the concept of effect delay and let emotions influence how much time-discounting should be made to the delay time. Finally, we demonstrate the strength of our model by simulating two decision making problems.