A Hybrid POMDP-BDI Agent Architecture with Online Stochastic Planning and Plan Caching

A Hybrid POMDP-BDI Agent Architecture with Online Stochastic Planning and Desires with Changing Intensity Levels

A BDI Agent Architecture for a POMDP Planner

Traditionally, agent architectures based on the BeliefDesire-Intention (BDI) model make use of precompiled plans, or if they do generate plans, the plans do not involve stochastic actions nor probabilistic observations. Plans that do involve these kinds of actions and observations are generated by partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) planners. In particular for POMDP planning, w...

Hybrid POMDP-BDI - An Agent Architecture with Online Stochastic Planning and Desires with Changing Intensity Levels

The authors propose an agent architecture which combines Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) and the belief-desire-intention (BDI) framework have several complementary strengths. The authors propose an agent architecture, which combines these two powerful approaches to capitalize on their strengths. Their architecture introduces the notion of intensity of the desire for a go...

Coordinating Teams in Uncertain Environments: A Hybrid BDI-POMDP Approach

Distributed partially observable Markov decision problems (POMDPs) have emerged as a popular decision-theoretic approach for planning for multiagent teams, where it is imperative for the agents to be able to reason about the rewards (and costs) for their actions in the presence of uncertainty. However, finding the optimal distributed POMDP policy is computationally intractable (NEXPComplete). T...

Multiagent Teamwork: Hybrid Approaches

Today within the multiagent community, we see at least four competing methods to building multiagent systems: beliefdesire-intention (BDI), distributed constraint optimization (DCOP), distributed POMDPs, and auctions or game-theoretic methods. While there is exciting progress within each approach, there is a lack of cross-cutting research. This article highlights the various hybrid techniques f...