Updating Action Descriptions and Plans for Cognitive Agents

Peter Stringer (University of Manchester), Rafael C. Cardoso (University of Aberdeen), Clare Dixon (University of Manchester), Michael Fisher (University of Manchester), Louise A. Dennis (University of Manchester)

Abstract

In this paper, we present an extension of Belief-Desire-Intention agents which can adapt their performance in response to changes in their environment. Our main contributions are the underlying theoretical mechanisms for data collection about action performance, the synthesis of new action descriptions from this data, the integration with plan reconfiguration, and a practical implementation to validate the semantics.