'It's Not Just Goals All the Way Down' - 'It's Activities All the Way Down'

摘要

The rational agent community uses Michael Bratman's planning theory of intention as its theoretical foundation for the development of its agent-oriented BDI languages. We present an alternative framework based on situated action and activity theory, combining both BDI and activity-based modeling, to provide a more general agent framework. We describe an activity-based, as opposed to a goal-based, BDI language and agent architecture, and provide an example that shows the flexibility of this language compared to a goal-based language.