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A Probabilistic Approach to Represent Emotions Intensity into BDI Agents

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The BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) model is a well known reasoning architecture for intelligent agents. According to the original BDI approach, an agent is able to deliberate about what action to do next having only three main mental states: belief, desires and intentions. A BDI agent should be able to choose the more rational action to be done with bounded resources and incomplete knowledge in an acceptable time. As humans need emotions to make immediate decisions with incomplete information, some recent works have extending the BDI architecture in order to integrate emotions. However, as they only use logic to represent emotions, they are not able to define the intensity of the emotions. In this paper we present an implementation of the appraisal process of emotions into BDI agents using a BDI language that integrates logic and probabilistic reasoning. Hence, our emotional BDI implementation allows to differentiate between emotions and affective reactions. This is an important aspect because emotions tend to generate stronger response. Besides, the emotion intensity also determines the intensity of an individual reaction. In particular, we implement the event-based emotions with consequences for self based on the OCC cognitive psychological theory of emotions. We also present an illustrative scenario and its implementation.

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    This code can be programmed by hand, or it can be automatically generated from a graphical model similar to the BDN presented in Fig. 2 (see [29] for details).

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Gluz, J.C., Jaques, P.A. (2015). A Probabilistic Approach to Represent Emotions Intensity into BDI Agents. In: Duval, B., van den Herik, J., Loiseau, S., Filipe, J. (eds) Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8946. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25210-0_14

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