Behavioural State Machines: Programming Modular Agents

Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents

Volume

Papers from the 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Different application domains require different knowledge representation techniques. Agent designers should therefore be able to easily exploit benefits of various knowledge representation technologies in a single agent system. I describe here an agent programming framework of Behavioural State Machines, with Jazzyk, an implemented programming language interpreter for BSM. The presented framework draws a strict distinction between a knowledge representational and a behavioural level of an agent program. It supports a high degree of modularity w.r.t. employed KR technologies and at the same time provides a clear and concise semantics.