Modeling the mental activity of an autonomous agent: an implementation based on intentions and persuasions
Pietro Baroni, Daniela Fogli, Giovanni Guida, Silvano Mussi · Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Brescia) · 2005
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the design of intelligent autonomous agents, based on an original model of mental activity. In particular, we introduce the concept of active mental entity, as a new way of representing mental attitudes such as intentions and persuasions. The internal architecture of an agent is thus understood as a distributed system whose reasoning activity is determined by the interactions among active mental entities. A detailed description of the structure and operation of an agent is provided. The implementation of the proposed paradigm is then illustrated and some performance examples are presented.