Modelling of Personality in Agents: From Psychology to Logical Formalisation and Implementation

This paper aims to motivate the impact of personality on essential elements of the behaviour of agents (e.g. decisionmaking processes, emotions, moods, or coping strategies). We show that available works on agent behaviour and works that investigate the nature of emotions are somewhat disconnected and that bridging this gap is able to further our efforts in conceptualising human behaviour in software agents. We argue that such a connection requires a formalisation that specifies the concept of personality and the concept of decision-making processes jointly.