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Late Bindings in AgentSpeak(L)
Vídeňský František, Ing. (DITS)
Kočí Radek, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)
Zbořil František, doc. Ing., CSc. (DITS)
BDI Agents, Planning, Agent Interpretation, AgentSpeak(L)
For agents based on BDI theory, some problems remain open. These include parts of
the interpretation of these systems that are nondeterministic in the original
specifications, and finding methods for their determinism should lead to improved
rationality of agent behaviour.
These problems include the choice of a plan suitable for achieving the goal, then
the choice of the intention to be pursued by the agent at any given time, and if
a language based on predicate logic is used to implement such an agent, then
there is also the problem of choosing variable substitutions.
One such agent-based system is systems using the AgentSpeak(L) language, which is
be the basis for this paper.
We introduce late binding into the interpretation of this language and show that
they do not make the agent lose the possibility of achieving the goal by making
unnecessary or incorrect substitutions in cases where such a decision is not
necessary. We show that with late binding substitutions the agent operates with
all possible substitutions given by the chosen plan to the goals in the plan
structure, and that these substitutions are always valid with respect to the acts
performed so far within this plan.
The text introduces the use of late bindings to interpret AgentSpeak(L). In addition to the basic operations, operational semantics are presented, which can be used to create an interpreter that will execute an agent according to a program in this language in a more flexible way.
@inproceedings{BUT175854,
author="František {Zbořil} and František {Vídeňský} and Radek {Kočí} and František {Zbořil}",
title="Late Bindings in AgentSpeak(L)",
booktitle="Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence vol. 3",
year="2022",
pages="715--724",
publisher="SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications",
address="Lisabon",
doi="10.5220/0010897000003116",
isbn="978-989-758-547-0"
}