bdi4jade.reasoning

Interface OptionGenerationFunction

All Superinterfaces:

ReasoningStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultOptionGenerationFunction

public interface OptionGenerationFunction
extends ReasoningStrategy

This interface defines the option generation functions to be used in the BDI-interpreter, within the scope of a capability. 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 goalUpdateSet) This method is responsible for analyzing goals dispatched by a capability that have not been achieved yet, and choosing those to be dropped.

Methods inherited from interface bdi4jade.reasoning.ReasoningStrategy

setCapability

Method Detail

generateGoals

void generateGoals(GoalUpdateSet goalUpdateSet)

This method is responsible for analyzing goals dispatched by a capability that have not been achieved yet, and choosing those to be dropped. It may also generate new goals to be achieved. The parameter of this method is a GoalUpdateSet, which contains three sets: (i) the set of current goals dispatched by the capability associated with this strategy and their status; (ii) the set of generated goals; and (ii) the set of dropped goals. The last two sets are outputs of this methods.

Parameters:

goalUpdateSet - a three-set object containing current goals with their status, and dropped and generated goals.