Integration of Generic Motivations in Social Hybrid Agents

Most of hybrid agent architectures are made by a hierarchical succession of a reactive (at a lower level) and a cognitive (at a higher level) layers. Each of these layers represents a behavior, a function, a decision, etc. Instead of using such functional layers, we propose in this paper a generic model of social hybrid agent, which is rather based on natural (animal/human) motivations of the agent. We discuss here the contribution of our approach in hybrid agent modeling. The present work uses the pyramid of needs made by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow. The basis of this modeling is then using the result of an existing real-world psychological study.