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"It's not just goals all the way down" - "it's activities all the way down"

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Maarten SierhuisAuthors Info & Claims

ESAW'06: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII

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Published: 06 September 2006 Publication History

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The rational agent community uses Michael Bratman's planning theory of intention as its theoretical foundation for the development of its agent-oriented BDI languages. We present an alternative framework based on situated action and activity theory, combining both BDI and activity-based modeling, to provide a more general agent framework. We describe an activity-based, as opposed to a goal-based, BDI language and agent architecture, and provide an example that shows the flexibility of this language compared to a goal-based language.

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Sierhuis M(2013)Multi-agent activity modeling with the brahms environmentProceedings of the 7th international conference on Theory, Practice, and Applications of Rules on the Web10.1007/978-3-642-39617-5_6(34-35)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-39617-5_6
Johnson MBradshaw JFeltovich PJonker Cvan Riemsdijk BSierhuis M(2010)The fundamental principle of coactive designProceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems10.5555/2018118.2018130(172-191)Online publication date: 1-May-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2018118.2018130
Buckingham Shum SSierhuis MPark JBrown M(2010)Software Agents in Support of Human Argument MappingProceedings of the 2010 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 201010.5555/1860828.1860842(123-134)Online publication date: 5-Aug-2010
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ESAW'06: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII

September 2006

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ISBN:3540755225

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Gregory M. P. O'Hare
University College Dublin, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Adaptive Information Cluster, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Michael J. O'Grady
University College Dublin, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Adaptive Information Cluster, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Alessandro Ricci
Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Cesena, Italy
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Oğuz Dikenelli
Ege University, Department of Computer Engineering, Izmir, Turkey

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Sierhuis M(2013)Multi-agent activity modeling with the brahms environmentProceedings of the 7th international conference on Theory, Practice, and Applications of Rules on the Web10.1007/978-3-642-39617-5_6(34-35)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-39617-5_6
Johnson MBradshaw JFeltovich PJonker Cvan Riemsdijk BSierhuis M(2010)The fundamental principle of coactive designProceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems10.5555/2018118.2018130(172-191)Online publication date: 1-May-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2018118.2018130
Buckingham Shum SSierhuis MPark JBrown M(2010)Software Agents in Support of Human Argument MappingProceedings of the 2010 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 201010.5555/1860828.1860842(123-134)Online publication date: 5-Aug-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1860828.1860842
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