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Title: EBDI: An Architecture for Emotional Agents
Author: Hong Jiang, José M. Vidal, and Michael N. Huhns
Book Tittle: Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference
Year: 2007
Abstract: Most of the research on multiagent systems has focused on the development of rational utility-maximizing agents. However, research shows that emotions have a strong effect on peoples' physical states, motivations, beliefs, and desires. By introducing primary and secondary emotion into BDI architecture, we present a generic architecture for an emotional agent, EBDI, which can merge various emotion theories with an agent's reasoning process. It implements practical reasoning techniques separately from the specific emotion mechanism. The separation allows us to plug in emotional models as needed or upgrade the agent's reasoning engine independently.



@InProceedings{jiang07a,
  author =	 {Hong Jiang and Jos\'{e} M. Vidal and Michael
                  N. Huhns},
  title =	 {{EBDI}: An Architecture for Emotional Agents},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
                  Systems Conference},
  year =	 2007,
  abstract =	 { Most of the research on multiagent systems has
                  focused on the development of rational
                  utility-maximizing agents. However, research shows
                  that emotions have a strong effect on peoples'
                  physical states, motivations, beliefs, and
                  desires. By introducing primary and secondary
                  emotion into BDI architecture, we present a generic
                  architecture for an emotional agent, EBDI, which can
                  merge various emotion theories with an agent's
                  reasoning process. It implements practical reasoning
                  techniques separately from the specific emotion
                  mechanism. The separation allows us to plug in
                  emotional models as needed or upgrade the agent's
                  reasoning engine independently. },
  comment = 	 {40\% acceptance rate.},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/papers/jiang07a.pdf}
}
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