From decision to action : intentionality, a guide for the specification of intelligent agents' behaviour

TL;DR

This paper discusses a new approach for specifying the behavior of intelligent agents in virtual reality, emphasizing early semantic integration and a mixed imperative-declarative model to improve interaction and prototyping.

Contribution

It introduces the Intentional agent model that links decision-making with actions, facilitating high expressiveness and early semantic considerations in agent behavioral design.

Findings

Proposes the Intentional agent model for better behavioral specification

Highlights the importance of semantic integration early in design

Discusses a tool for simulating agents based on this model

Abstract

This article introduces a reflexion about behavioural specification for interactive and participative agent-based simulation in virtual reality. Within this context, it is neces sary to reach a high level of expressivness in order to enforce interactions between the designer and the behavioural model during the in-line prototyping. This requires to consider the need of semantic very early in the design process. The Intentional agent model is here exposed as a possible answer. It relies on a mixed imperative and declarative approach which focuses on the link between decision and action. The design of a tool able to simulate virtual environment implying agents based on this model is discuss