Together Is Better! Integrating BDI and RL Agents for Safe Learning and Effective Collaboration

Manuel Parmiggiani, Angelo Ferrando, Viviana Mascardi

2025

Abstract

What happens when symbolic knowledge is injected into the learning process of a sub-symbolic agent? What happens when symbolic and sub-symbolic agents collaborate? And what happens when they do not? This paper explores an innovative combination of symbolic – i.e., Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) – and sub-symbolic – i.e., Reinforcement Learning (RL) – agents. The combination is achieved at two different logical levels: at the single agent level, we show how symbolic knowledge may be exploited to drive the learning process of a RL agent; at the multiagent system level, we show how purely BDI agents and purely RL agents behave in the complex scenario of the ‘Among Us’ videogame, and – more interestingly – what happens when BDI agents compete against RL agents, and when BDI and RL agents cooperate to achieve their goals.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Parmiggiani M., Ferrando A. and Mascardi V. (2025). Together Is Better! Integrating BDI and RL Agents for Safe Learning and Effective Collaboration. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-737-5, SciTePress, pages 48-59. DOI: 10.5220/0013077000003890

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart25,
author={Manuel Parmiggiani and Angelo Ferrando and Viviana Mascardi},
title={Together Is Better! Integrating BDI and RL Agents for Safe Learning and Effective Collaboration},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART},
year={2025},
pages={48-59},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013077000003890},
isbn={978-989-758-737-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART
TI - Together Is Better! Integrating BDI and RL Agents for Safe Learning and Effective Collaboration
SN - 978-989-758-737-5
AU - Parmiggiani M.
AU - Ferrando A.
AU - Mascardi V.
PY - 2025
SP - 48
EP - 59
DO - 10.5220/0013077000003890
PB - SciTePress