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Programming Agents with Emotions

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In this paper we show how a cognitive agent programming language can be endowed with ways to program emotions. In particular we show how the programming language 2APL can be augmented so that it can work together with the computational emotion model ALMA to deal with appraisal, emotion/mood generation, and coping.

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    Of course, events do not carry their desire-fulfilling property in general. An event causes often an update on an agent’s beliefs after which it can be evaluated whether the event did in fact contributed to the achievement of the agent’s objectives. In this paper, we assume that events do carry their desire-fulfilling property in order to avoid complex belief update and evaluation operations required to program individual agents.

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    The sign \(\leftarrow \) in the rule should not be read as logical implication. This sign is used in 2APL to separate the head of the rule from its context condition (i.e., belief query), which is in turn separated from the body of the rule by the \(\mid \) sign.

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We thank Rainer Reisenzein (University of Greifswald) for his extensive comments on the draft version of this paper.

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    Mehdi Dastani, Christiaan Floor & John-Jules Ch. Meyer

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  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

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Dastani, M., Floor, C., Meyer, JJ.C. (2014). Programming Agents with Emotions. In: Bosse, T., Broekens, J., Dias, J., van der Zwaan, J. (eds) Emotion Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8750. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12973-0_4

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