Conceptual Flow-Based Modeling of Agents
Sabah Al‐Fedaghi · 2009
Agent-based systems have emerged as an important next-generation automation paradigm. One of the aims of agent-oriented research is to simplify agent design by introducing a conceptual abstraction layer for interacting agents. This paper provides a new multilevel conceptual foundation for modeling of agents, their relationships, and their interactions based on BDI concepts. The methodology utilizes a flow model of five stages. It incorporates all BDI aspects by assigning agents to information/beliefs, goals, plans, and actions spheres.