JTEAM: a framework for effective teamwork of BDI-based agents

Author

Hsu, Chia-Lin ; Chou, Shih-Feng ; Tsay, Jong-Chuang ; Wang, Feng-Jian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2003

fDate

28-30 May 2003

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

196

Abstract

The multi-agent systems approach promises significant benefits to distributed systems engineering, such as enhanced interoperability, scalability, and reconfigurability. Moreover, the teamwork of multiple agents can unite the capabilities of individual agents to solve problems of greater complexity than those solved by the individual agents. This paper presents a framework for effective teamwork of BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention)-based agents. The framework is built on JAM derived from PRS (Procedural Reasoning System), which is an intelligent agent architecture based on BDI theories. The framework extends the single agent capabilities of JAM and creates a teamwork infrastructure to effectively unite multiple agents´ capabilities to solve problems collaboratively.

Keywords

distributed processing; multi-agent systems; systems engineering; JTEAM; belief-desire-intention based agents; distributed systems engineering; intelligent agent architecture; multi-agent systems; procedural reasoning system; Artificial intelligence; Computer architecture; Computer science; Humans; Intelligent agent; Libraries; Multiagent systems; Software agents; Systems engineering and theory; Teamwork;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 2003. FTDCS 2003. Proceedings. The Ninth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of

ISSN

1071-0485

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1910-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.2003.1204332

Filename

1204332