TY  - CONF
T1  - RT-BDI: A Real-Time BDI model
A1  - Alzetta, Francesco
A1  - Giorgini, Paolo
A1  - Marinoni, Mauro
A1  - Calvaresi, Davide
TI  - Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Y1  - 2020
KW  - autonomous agents
KW  - BDI model
KW  - Multi-Agent Systems
KW  - Real-time Multi-agent systems
KW  - real-time systems
N2  - Currently, distributed cyber-physical systems (CPS) rely upon embedded real-time systems, which can guarantee compliance with time constraints. CPS are increasingly required to act and interact with one another in dynamic environments. In the last decades, the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) architecture has proven to be ideal for developing agents with flexible behavior. However, current BDI models can only reason about time and not in time. This lack prevents BDI agents from being adopted in designing CPS, and particularly in safety-critical applications. This paper proposes a revision of the BDI model by integrating real-time mechanisms into the reasoning cycle of the agent. By doing so, the BDI agent can make decisions and execute plans ensuring compliance with strict timing constraints also in dynamic environments, where unpredictable events may occur.
ER  -