On some concepts of emotional engine for BDI agent system

Abstract

Emotions are one of those phenomena which are rarely seen in connection with exact disciplines such as computer science or information technologies. However, with the widespread use of computer systems we see nowadays, the demand to include emotions to reasoning of artificial systems emerged and formalized emotional models have been created. In this paper we deal with an emotional engine we developed on the basis of the OCC model of emotions and its revised form. The emotional engine has been implemented as a conservative extension of the Jadex BDI agent platform. The paper describes basic concepts of the engine, namely a closed feedback loop between emotional and BDI part of a BDI agent and an emotional state representation.