Emotions et systèmes multi-agents : une architecture d'agent émotionnel

Recent research in neuropsychology shows that emotions play a balancing role in rationality in behavior and decision-making. Moreover, social sciences indicate the functional role of the emotions in behavior during social interaction. In a social interaction, the rational agents cannot only be based on mechanisms binding beliefs, desires and intentions any more without considering the influence of emotional-order mechanisms within their structure. In this way, modeling dialogue needs processing hints on mental and emotional states of the interlocutor. In this article, we present a first approach of these emotional agents while trying to conciliate emotion and rationality within an hybrid agent architecture for human dialog processing. MOTS-CLÉS : modélisation des émotions, architectures d’agents émotionnels et conversationnels