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The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model of agency is an architecture based on Bratman’s theory of practical reasoning. Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) decomposition on the other hand is a planning technique which has its roots in classical planning systems such as STRIPS. Despite being used for different purposes, HTN and BDI systems appear to have a lot of similarities in the problem solving approaches they adopt. This paper presents these similarities. A systematic method for mapping between the two systems is developed, and experimental results for different kinds of environments are presented.
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de Silva, L., Padgham, L. (2004). A Comparison of BDI Based Real-Time Reasoning and HTN Based Planning. In: Webb, G.I., Yu, X. (eds) AI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3339. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30549-1_118
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