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BDI Agents with Objectives and Preferences

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For many applications there is the need to handle user preferences and customize agents according to the user’s specific needs. It is convenient to let the user provide elaborate specification consisting of constraints, preferences and objectives. Then, let the agent system make decisions about its actions by taking into account changes in the surrounding environment as well as the user preferences that come in real-time. In this paper we describe an agent programming language where we incorporate constraints, objectives and preferences into the BDI framework. Our work especially focuses on the use of soft constraints in an agent environment where we give a quantitative dimension to this agent deliberation process by apply c-semiring based techniques to determine the preferred solution.

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  • Multiagent System
  • Orange Juice
  • User Preference
  • Operational Semantic
  • Soft Constraint

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  1. Decision Systems Lab, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia

    Aniruddha Dasgupta & Aditya K. Ghose

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  1. Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna a Cesena, via Venezia 52, 47023, Cesena, Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Aberdeen, UK

    Wamberto Vasconcelos

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Dasgupta, A., Ghose, A.K. (2011). BDI Agents with Objectives and Preferences. In: Omicini, A., Sardina, S., Vasconcelos, W. (eds) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VIII. DALT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6619. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20715-0_2

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