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EBDI: an architecture for emotional agents

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International Conference on Autonomous Agents archive
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems table of contents

Honolulu, Hawaii

SESSION: Embodied agents and architectures: poster papers table of contents

Article No. 11

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-81-904262-7-5

Authors

Hong Jiang	University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Jose M. Vidal	University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Michael N. Huhns	University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

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: IFAAMAS

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Most of the research on multiagent systems has focused on the development of rational utility-maximizing agents. However, research shows that emotions have a strong effect on peoples' physical states, motivations, beliefs, and desires. By introducing primary and secondary emotion into BDI architecture, we present a generic architecture for an emotional agent, EBDI, which can merge various emotion theories with an agent's reasoning process. It implements practical reasoning techniques separately from the specific emotion mechanism. The separation allows us to plug in emotional models as needed or upgrade the agent's reasoning engine independently.

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