CRAFTING THE MIND OF PROSOCS AGENTS

• DOI: 10.1080/08839510500479496
• Publication Date: 2006-03-31T02:43:44Z
• Authors: Andrea Bracciali; Ulle Endriss; Neophytos Demetriou; Antonis Kakas; Wenjin Lu Stathis; Kostas Stathis
• Keywords: Mathematical models; Control systems; KGP model; Intelligent agents; Prosocs agents; Autonomous agents; 02 engineering and technology; Formal logic; Software agents; Artificial Intelligence; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Computer software; Behavioral research; Knowmad Institut; Netherlands

PROSOCS agents are software agents that are built according to the KGP model of agency. KGP is used as a model for the mind of the agent, so that the agent can act autonomously using a collection of logic theories, providing the mind's reasoning functionalities. The behavior of the agent is controlled by a cycle theory that specifies the agent's preferred patterns of operation. The implementation of the mind's generic functionality in PROSOCS is worked out in such a way so it can be instantiated by the platform for different agents across applications. In this context, the development of a concrete example illustrates how an agent developer might program the generic functionality of the mind for a simple application.