bdi4jade.reasoning

Interface AgentOptionGenerationFunction

All Superinterfaces:

AgentReasoningStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultAgentOptionGenerationFunction

public interface AgentOptionGenerationFunction
extends AgentReasoningStrategy

This interface defines the option generation functions to be used in the BDI-interpreter, by a BDI agent. This strategy is used for creating new goals or to drop existing ones.

Author:

Ingrid Nunes

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	generateGoals(GoalUpdateSet agentGoalUpdateSet, java.util.Map<Capability,GoalUpdateSet> capabilityGoalUpdateSets) This method is responsible for generating new goals or dropping existing ones.

Methods inherited from interface bdi4jade.reasoning.AgentReasoningStrategy

setAgent

Method Detail

generateGoals

void generateGoals(GoalUpdateSet agentGoalUpdateSet,
                   java.util.Map<Capability,GoalUpdateSet> capabilityGoalUpdateSets)

This method is responsible for generating new goals or dropping existing ones.

Parameters:

agentGoalUpdateSet - the GoalUpdateSet that contains the set of agent current goals. It has also a set of dropped goals and generated goals, which are used as outputs of this method.

capabilityGoalUpdateSets - the map from capabilities to their goal update set.