Reactive and Motivational Agents
D.N.Davis
Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Budapest, Hungary, 1996
Abstract
This paper explores the design and implementation of a societal arrangement
of reflexive and motivational agents which will act as the building blocks
for a more abstract agent within which the current agents act as distributed
dynamic processing nodes. We contest that reactive, deliberative and other
behaviours are required in complete (intelligent) agents. We provide some
architectural considerations on how these differing forms of behaviours
can be cleanly integrated and relate that to a discussion on the nature
of motivational states and the mechanisms used for making decisions.