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The Behavior-Oriented Design of Modular Agent Intelligence

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Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services (NODe 2002)

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Behavior-Oriented Design (BOD) is a development methodology for creating complex, complete agents such as virtual-reality characters, autonomous robots, intelligent tutors or intelligent environments. BOD agents are modular, but not multi-agent systems. They use hierarchical reactive plans to perform ar-bitration between their component modules. BOD provides not only architectural specifications for modules and plans, but a methodology for building them. The BOD methodology is cyclic, consisting of rules for an initial decomposition and heuristics for revising the specification over the process of development.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK

    Joanna J. Bryson

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jaime G. Carbonell

  2. University of Saarland, Saabrücken, Germany

    Jörg Siekmann

  3. CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, 3053, Victoria, Australia

    Ryszard Kowalczyk

  4. Siemens AG, CT IC 6, Munich, Germany

    Jörg P. Müller

  5. Department of Computing, Glasgow Caledonian University, City Campus, 70 Cowcaddens Road, G4 0BA, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Huaglory Tianfield

  6. Institute for Computer Science, University of Essen, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

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Bryson, J.J. (2003). The Behavior-Oriented Design of Modular Agent Intelligence. In: Carbonell, J.G., Siekmann, J., Kowalczyk, R., Müller, J.P., Tianfield, H., Unland, R. (eds) Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services. NODe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36559-1_7

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