Planning on demand in BDI systems

Abstract: IntroductionThe BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) model of agency is apopular architecture based on Bratman's (Bratman 1987)theory of practical reasoning. There are numerous implementationsbased on the BDI architecture such as PRS(Georgeff & Ingrand 1989) and JACK, which are used forboth academic and industrial purposes. An important aspectof BDI style systems is that they execute as they reason,and so avoid the possibility of the reasoning being outdated,due to environmental...