A Formal Architecture for the 3APL Agent Programming Language

Abstract. The notion of agents has provided a way of imbuing traditional computing systems with an extra degree of flexibility that allows them to be more resilient and robust in the face of more varied and unpredictable forms of interaction. One class of agents, typically called intelligent agents, represent their world symbolically according to their beliefs, have goals which need to be achieved, and adopt plans or intentions to achieve them. Now, one approach to building agents is to design a programming language whose semantics are based on some theory of rational or intentional agency and to program the desired behaviour of individual agents directly using mental attitudes. Such a technique is referred to as agent oriented programming. Arguably, the most innovative of these languages is 3APL (pronounced "triple-a-p-l") which supports the construction of intelligent agents for the development of complex systems through a set of intuitive concepts like beliefs, goals and p...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ZUM
• Authors: Mark d'Inverno, Koen V. Hindriks, Michael Luck
• Keywords: Formal Methods, Intelligent Agents, Programming Language, Traditional Computing Systems, ZUM 2000