Motivating Intelligent Agents for Virtual Environments
S. de Lioncourt, G. Flucke · 1999
Abstract. An agent with multiple requirements and limited or constrained resources must be able to make decisions as to how to divide those resources in order to best satisfy its requirements. It may not be possible to satisfy all of its requirements at once, so some requirements may have to be sacrificed for the sake of more important ones; in other cases a compromise may be possible in which all of its requirements are partially satisfied. This paper examines the kinds of requirements we may have of an agent, and how to measure the performance of an agent with respect to these requirements. Such a requirements analysis can be used as a conceptual design tool, and the basis of a specification of an agent. An agent architecture based on the belief-desire-intention model is proposed in which the design and implementation of an agent is decomposed in terms of its requirements. This architecture allows the intuitive development of agents with multiple requirements in dynamic virtual environments. 1