The agent programming language GOAL is a high-level programming language to program
rational agents that derive their choice of action from their beliefs and goals. The language …

The BDI model forms the basis of much of the research on symbolic models of agency and
agent-oriented software engineering. While many variants of the basic BDI model have been …

Research addressing the influence of happy mood on self‐focused attention has yielded
inconsistent results. Some studies found that happy mood decreased self‐focus relative to …

Personal assistant agents capable of proactively offering assistance can be more helpful to
their users through their ability to perform tasks that otherwise would require user …

A fundamental feature of intelligent agents is their ability to deliberate over their goals.
Operating in an environment that may change in unpredictable ways, an agent needs to …

In a normative environment, an agent's actions are directed not only by its goals but also by
the norms activated by its actions and those of other actors. The potential for conflict …

This paper reports on a novel decentralized technique for planning agent schedules in
dynamic task allocation problems. Specifically, we use a stochastic game formulation of …

Goals are central to the design and implementation of intelligent software agents. Much of
the literature on goals and reasoning about goals in agent programming frameworks only …

Whereas commitments capture how an agent relates with another agent,(private) goals
describe states of the world that an agent is motivated to bring about. Researchers have …

Process for making an “ABC” part 1. robot1 loads an A part into one of the jigs on the rotating
table 2. robot1 loads a B part on top of it 3. the table rotates so the A and B parts are at …