Agent talks about itself: an implementation using Jason, CArtAgO and Speech Acts

Abstract

Thinking to oneself is a prerogative of man when he needs to think about or repeat what he is doing or experiencing. It is a way of processing information and setting in motion a decision-making process. When this is done aloud, there is also a chance that someone else will understand the meaning or reasons for the action. Equipping an agent with the ability to reveal the reasons for its decisions is both a way to improve human interaction and a way to improve the triggering of a decision process. In this work, we propose to use the speech act to enable a coalition of agents to exhibit inner speech capabilities to explain their behavior, but also to guide and reinforce the creation of an inner model. The BDI agent paradigm, Jason, and CArtAgO are used to give agents the ability to act in a human-like manner. The BDI reasoning cycle has been extended to include inner speech. The proposed solution continues the research path that started with the definition of a cognitive model and architecture for human-robot teaming interaction and aims to integrate the believable interaction paradigm in it.