Multi-criteria Argumentation-Based Decision Making within a BDI Agent

Abstract. The BDI model, as a practical reasoning architecture aims at making decisions about what to do based on cognitives notions as beliefs, desires and intentions. However, during the decision making pro-cess, BDI agents also have to make background decisions like choosing what intention to achieve next from a set of possibly con icting desires; which plan to execute from among the plans that satisfy a given inten-tion; and whether is necessary or not to reconsider current intentions. With this aim, in this work, we present an abstract framework which integrates a Possibilistic Defeasible Logic Programming [1] approach to decision making in the inner decision processes within BDI agents