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The MicroPsi agent architecture, which is based mainly on the Psi theory of Dietrich Dörner, describes the interaction of emotion, motivation and cognition of situated agents. The underlying theory has been formulated within the context of psychology but captures numerous aspects of interest for cognitive science, psychological modeling, social simulation and human-machine interaction. MicroPsi is an attempt to formulate this theory in a more abstract and formal way and to make necessary extensions to allow for the implementation of agents for a range of applications. This contribution describes some components of the architecture and introduces a node net formalism, which serves as the primary means of representation, behavior control and modeling of MicroPsi agents.
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Bach, J., Vuine, R. (2003). Designing Agents with MicroPsi Node Nets. In: Günter, A., Kruse, R., Neumann, B. (eds) KI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39451-8_13
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