Orpheus: Programming Protocol-Based BDI Agents

We demonstrate Orpheus, a novel programming model for engineering BDI agents that communicate on the basis of protocols. In Orpheus, protocols are specified in BSPL and agents are implemented in Jason. Given a protocol, Orpheus tooling generates a Jason adapter that exposes a simple interface for sending messages based on protocol state. Orpheus shines in the implementation of flexible, loosely-coupled agents, long a challenge for BDI-based agent programming approaches. Demonstration video: https: //di. unito. it/orpheusvid

Authors

• Matteo Baldoni Universita degli Studi di Torino
• Samuel H. Christie
• Munindar P. Singh North Carolina State University
• Amit K. Chopra Lancaster University

Keywords

• Information Protocols
• BDI
• Agent Programming