Year
2000
Degree Name
Master of Commerce (Hons.)
Department
Department of Information Systems
Recommended Citation
Ooi, Boon H., ConstraintAgentSpeak: an extension of the Agent Specification Language - AgentSpeak(L), Master of Commerce (Hons.) thesis, Department of Information Systems, University of Wollongong, 2000. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/2291
Abstract
The design of complex agent-based systems requires the use of expressive high-level specification languages which eventually translate into efficient implementations. This thesis suggests that constraint-based agent specification is one of the approaches that meet these requirements. To support this assertion, this thesis presents an augmentation of the BDI agent programming language AgentSpeak(L) [Rao, 1996] with constraints and describes an implementation of an interpreter for the proposed agent specification language. The proposed language, called ConstraintAgentSpeak, improves over AgentSpeak(L) in a manner parallel to the gains achieved by integrating constraints in a logic programming framework to obtain constraint logic programming [Jaffar, 1986], in terms of both expressivity and efficiency. A preliminary observation on BDI agent architecture and constrain-based reasoning is given in chapter 2. Other chapters of this thesis present the following discussions on ConstraintAgentSpeak.
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.