Explaining BDI agent behaviour through dialogue


Dennis, Louise A ORCID: 0000-0003-1426-1896 and Oren, Nir ORCID: 0000-0002-4854-9014 (2022) Explaining BDI agent behaviour through dialogue. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 36 (2).

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>BDI agents act in response to external inputs and their internal plan library. Understanding the root cause of BDI agent action is often difficult, and in this paper we present a dialogue based approach for explaining the behaviour of a BDI agent. We consider two dialogue participants who may have different views regarding the beliefs, plans and external events which drove agent action (encoded via traces). These participants make utterances which incrementally reveal their traces to each other, allowing them to identify divergences in the traces, or to conclude that their traces agree. In practice, we envision a human taking on the role of a dialogue participant, with the BDI agent itself acting as the other participant. The dialogue then facilitates explanation, understanding and debugging of BDI agent behaviour. After presenting our formalism and its properties, we describe our implementation of the system and provide an example of its use in a simple scenario.</jats:p>

Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 09 Sep 2022 08:42
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 20:45
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-022-09556-8
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-022-09556-8
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3163989
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