• DOI:10.1007/3-540-45941-3_9
• Corpus ID: 12735820

Motivational Attitudes of Agents: On Desires, Obligations, and Norms

@inproceedings{Dignum2001MotivationalAO,
  title={Motivational Attitudes of Agents: On Desires, Obligations, and Norms},
  author={Frank Dignum and David Kinny and Liz Sonenberg},
  booktitle={CEEMAS},
  year={2001}
}

• F. Dignum, D. Kinny, L. Sonenberg
• Published in CEEMAS 26 September 2001
• Philosophy

Many papers about agents mention BDI as a reference logical model for agents, but this model does not offer a thorough formal account of the connections between the different modalities of Beliefs, Desires and Intentions. Of course, work such as that of Rao and Georgeff [14] and of Cohen and Levesque [5] has pointed to some specific constraints, but does not offer a complete logical theory that explains all possible connections between, e.g., goals and intentions. Another point of concern often voiced is the long-standing gap between the BDI logical model and practical agent implementations. Judged by its applicability, it might seem that the BDI model is becoming less important, due to the looseness of its connection to practical systems, and because of its failure to guide research into implementation directions in any obviously useful way.