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It remains a challenge with current state of the art technology to use BDI agents to control real-time, dynamic and complex environments. We report on our effort to connect the Goal agent programming language to the real-time game Unreal Tournament 2004. BDI agents provide an interesting alternative to control bots in a game such as Unreal Tournament to more reactive styles of controlling such bots. Establishing an interface between a language such as Goal and Unreal Tournament, however, poses many challenges. We focus in particular on the design of a suitable and reusable interface to manage agent-bot interaction and argue that the use of a recent toolkit for developing an agent-environment interface provides many advantages. We discuss various issues related to the abstraction level that fits an interface that connects high-level, logic-based BDI agents to a real-time environment, taking into account some of the performance issues.
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I.2.11 [Artificial Intelligence]: Distributed Artificial Intelligence—Intelligent Agents;
I.6.7 [Simulation Support Systems]: Environments
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Hindriks, K.V. et al. (2011). Unreal Goal Bots. In: Dignum, F. (eds) Agents for Games and Simulations II. AGS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18181-8_1
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