BDI Agent Architectures: A Survey

BDI Agent Architectures: A Survey

Lavindra de Silva, Felipe Meneguzzi, Brian Logan

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Survey track. Pages 4914-4921. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/684

The BDI model forms the basis of much of the research on symbolic models of agency and agent-oriented software engineering. While many variants of the basic BDI model have been proposed in the literature, there has been no systematic review of research on BDI agent architectures in over 10 years. In this paper, we survey the main approaches to each component of the BDI architecture, how these have been realised in agent programming languages, and discuss the trade-offs inherent in each approach.
Keywords:
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: general