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The Belief-Desire-Intention Model of Agency

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Within the ATAL community, the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model has come to be possibly the best known and best studied model of practical reasoning agents. There are several reasons for its success, but perhaps the most compelling are that the BDI model combines a respectable philosophical model of human practical reasoning, (originally developed by Michael Bratman [1]), a number of implementations (in the IRMA architecture [2] and the various PRS-like systems currently available [7]), several successful applications (including the now-famous fault diagnosis system for the space shuttle, as well as factory process control systems and business process management [8]), and finally, an elegant abstract logical semantics, which have been taken up and elaborated upon widely within the agent research community [14, 16].

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  1. Australian AI Institute, Level 6, 171 La Trobe St, Melbourne, Australia, 3000

    Michael Georgeff

  2. RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, Santa Clara County, USA

    Barney Pell

  3. Department of Computer Science/Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

    Martha Pollack

  4. Computer Science Department/ISI, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA

    Milind Tambe

  5. Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK

    Michael Wooldridge

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Georgeff, M., Pell, B., Pollack, M., Tambe, M., Wooldridge, M. (1999). The Belief-Desire-Intention Model of Agency. In: Müller, J.P., Rao, A.S., Singh, M.P. (eds) Intelligent Agents V: Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages. ATAL 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49057-4_1

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