An Open Architecture for Affective Traits in a BDI Agent

Bexy Alfonso, Emilio Vivancos, Vicent J. Botti

2014

Abstract

Recently an increasing amount of research focuses on improving agents believability by adding affective features to the traditional agent-based modeling. This is probably due to the demand of reaching ever more realistic behaviors on agent-based simulations which extends to several and diverse application fields. The present work proposes O3A: an Open Affective Agent Architecture, which extends a traditional BDI agent architecture improving a practical reasoning with more "human" characteristics. This architecture tries to address disperse definitions combining the main elements of supporting psychological and neurological theories.

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Alfonso B., Vivancos E. and Botti V. (2014). An Open Architecture for Affective Traits in a BDI Agent . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-052-9, pages 320-325. DOI: 10.5220/0005153603200325


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@conference{ecta14,
author={Bexy Alfonso and Emilio Vivancos and Vicent J. Botti},
title={An Open Architecture for Affective Traits in a BDI Agent},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={320-325},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005153603200325},
isbn={978-989-758-052-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2014)
TI - An Open Architecture for Affective Traits in a BDI Agent
SN - 978-989-758-052-9
AU - Alfonso B.
AU - Vivancos E.
AU - Botti V.
PY - 2014
SP - 320
EP - 325
DO - 10.5220/0005153603200325