Intention scheduling for BDI Agent Systems

Abstract

BDI is one of the models in Agent Systems. Currently, most of BDI agents' researches are focused on the ability for agents to dynamically select plans to achieve a goal. There are fewer discussions on Intention Scheduling, the order in which the selected plans are executed Agents must adapt to dynamical and unpredictable changes. Without a proper scheduling scheme, an agent may repeat unnecessary works, waste valuable resource or even jail the users' expect altogether. In this paper, we present an effective intention-scheduling scheme in BDI reasoning process, to make BDI agents more efficient and suitable for execution.