A Further Exploration of the Natural Incorporation of Motives in BDI Architectures

Abstract

Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) is a well known model for designing agents behaving intelligently and in a flexible manner. The concept of goal is an important BDI agent’s component that plays a central role in this flexibility of behavior. Besides, as the concept of motive is another relevant one for the agent’s behavioral flexibility and as the BDI model originally does not include motives, some extensions of the BDI agent, with a new component for expressing the motive, have been proposed. In a recent work, it has been shown that the concept of motive can be specified via the goal concept, so it is not required to add a new component to express a motive. In this paper, we further explore this idea at the architectural level of a BDI agent. In particular, we look at how the added values of incorporating motives in BDI agents, can be obtained via the goal concept.