@inproceedings{Jiang2007EBDIAA,
title={EBDI: an architecture for emotional agents},
author={Hong Jiang and Jos{\'e} M. Vidal and Michael N. Huhns},
booktitle={AAMAS},
year={2007}
}
Most of the research on multiagent systems has focused on the development of rational utility-maximizing agents. However, research shows that emotions have a strong effect on peoples' physical states, motivations, beliefs, and desires. By introducing primary and secondary emotion into BDI architecture, we present a generic architecture for an emotional agent, EBDI, which can merge various emotion theories with an agent's reasoning process. It implements practical reasoning techniques separately… CONTINUE READING