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Conversational Agents as Full-Pledged BDI Agents for Ambient Intelligence

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Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications

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The need for conversational agents based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) architecture rise to support natural interfaces in many application areas of ambient intelligence, among which are the smart homes, health monitoring and assistance, care for the elderly, transportation, education, and tourism. The objective of this paper is to present an implementation of a conversational agent as a full-pledged BDI agent. This is achieved through mapping the BDI constructs in intelligent agents to the natural language processing components in a classic conversational agent, Eliza. Discussions focus on the process of reengineering the conversational agent technologies into BDI approach.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Aida Mustapha

  2. College of Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, 43009, Kajang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad & Azhana Ahmad

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  1. for Smart Technology and Smart Living, Stichting Smart Homes, Smart Homes Research Centre, Eindhoven, 5605, Netherlands

    Ad van Berlo

  2. , The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, 5230, Denmark

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Mustapha, A., Ahmad, M.S., Ahmad, A. (2013). Conversational Agents as Full-Pledged BDI Agents for Ambient Intelligence. In: van Berlo, A., Hallenborg, K., Rodríguez, J., Tapia, D., Novais, P. (eds) Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 219. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00566-9_28

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