Comparing Variable Handling Strategies in BDI Agents: Experimental Study

Frantisek Vidensky, Frantisek V. Zboril, Jan Beran, Radek Koci, Frantisek Zboril

2024

Abstract

BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) agents represent a paradigm in artificial intelligence, demonstrating proficiency in reasoning, planning, and decision-making. They offer a versatile framework to construct intelligent agents capable of reasoning about their beliefs, desires, and intentions. Our research focuses on AgentSpeak(L), a popular BDI language, and its interpreter using late variable bindings. Unlike traditional interpreters, it defers substitution selection until execution, enhancing rationality by preventing premature, erroneous selections. To validate our approach, we conducted experiments in a virtual collectable card marketplace. We implemented a system that can use both late and early variable binding strategies, comparing their performance. In shared and independent experiments, the late bindings strategy outperformed the early bindings strategy, although overhead costs were observed. We also conduct a brief discussion of the situations in which it is appropriate to use late bindings given the structure of the declared plans.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Vidensky F., V. Zboril F., Beran J., Koci R. and Zboril F. (2024). Comparing Variable Handling Strategies in BDI Agents: Experimental Study. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-680-4, SciTePress, pages 25-36. DOI: 10.5220/0012358600003636

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart24,
author={Frantisek Vidensky and Frantisek V. Zboril and Jan Beran and Radek Koci and Frantisek Zboril},
title={Comparing Variable Handling Strategies in BDI Agents: Experimental Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART},
year={2024},
pages={25-36},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012358600003636},
isbn={978-989-758-680-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART
TI - Comparing Variable Handling Strategies in BDI Agents: Experimental Study
SN - 978-989-758-680-4
AU - Vidensky F.
AU - V. Zboril F.
AU - Beran J.
AU - Koci R.
AU - Zboril F.
PY - 2024
SP - 25
EP - 36
DO - 10.5220/0012358600003636
PB - SciTePress