Towards Predictive Execution Monitoring in BDI Recipes
Mika Barkan, Gal A. Kaminka · 2019
Agents do not only generate and choose plans for execution, they also monitor the execution of plans and handle contingencies [1, 5, 6]. The capacity for execution monitoring allows agents to assess the execution of plans, determine the need for re-planning, identify opportunities, and re-evaluate goal selection. In practice, many BDI plan execution systems focus only on the current plan step. They do not project ahead the current knowledge of the agent to determine implications on future steps. Thus a failure of a future plan-step, which may already be predictable with given the current knowledge of the agent, is not detected until the last possible moment.