Supporting group plans in the BDI architecture using coordination middleware

Cranefield, Stephen

Supporting group plans in the BDI architecture using coordination middleware

Cranefield, Stephen

Cite this item: Cranefield, S. (2016). Supporting group plans in the BDI architecture using coordination middleware (Technical Report). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6232

Permanent link to OUR Archive version: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6232

Date: 2016

Keywords: Group plans; Group goals; BDI architecture; Multi-agent systems; ZooKeeper

Research Type: Technical Report

Languages: English

Abstract:

This paper investigates the use of group plans and goals as programming abstractions that encapsulate the communication needed to coordinate collaborative behaviour. It presents an extension of the BDI agent architecture to include explicit constructs for goals and plans that involve coordinated action by groups of agents. Formal operational semantics for group goals are provided, and an implementation of group plans and goals for the Jason agent platform is described, based on integration with the Zookeeper coordination middleware.

Notes:

This is the full version of a paper published as the following extended abstract:

Supporting Group Plans in the BDI Architecture using Coordination Middleware (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 1427-1428, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2016 http://trust.sce.ntu.edu.sg/aamas16/pdfs/p1427.pdf

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