bdi4jade.reasoning

Interface AgentDeliberationFunction

All Superinterfaces:

AgentReasoningStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultAgentDeliberationFunction

public interface AgentDeliberationFunction
extends AgentReasoningStrategy

This interface defines the deliberation function to be used by a BDI agent. This strategy is used for selecting a set of goals that must be tried (intentions) from the set of goals.

Author:

Ingrid Nunes

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.util.Set<Goal>	filter(java.util.Set<GoalUpdateSet.GoalDescription> agentGoals, java.util.Map<Capability,java.util.Set<GoalUpdateSet.GoalDescription>> capabilityGoals) This method is responsible for selecting a set of goals that must be tried to be achieved (intentions) from the set of goals.

Methods inherited from interface bdi4jade.reasoning.AgentReasoningStrategy

setAgent

Method Detail

filter

java.util.Set<Goal> filter(java.util.Set<GoalUpdateSet.GoalDescription> agentGoals,
                           java.util.Map<Capability,java.util.Set<GoalUpdateSet.GoalDescription>> capabilityGoals)

This method is responsible for selecting a set of goals that must be tried to be achieved (intentions) from the set of goals.

Parameters:

agentGoals - the set of agent goals, which are goals not dispatched within the scope of a capability.

capabilityGoals - the map from capabilities to their set of goals.

Returns:

the list of selected goals, which will become intentions.