Aborting tasks in BDI agents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 8-15

  Thangarajah, John ^a   Harland, James ^a   Morley, David ^b   Yorke Smith, Neil ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Architectures: reactive and deliberative; Agents; Formal models of agency

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT AGENTS; AGENT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; AGENT SYSTEMS; BDI AGENTS; COURSE OF ACTIONS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; EXECUTION CYCLES; EXECUTION MODELS; FORMAL MODELS OF AGENCY; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; SUB-TASKS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; INFORMATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LINGUISTICS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

AGENTS;

EID: 60349087985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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