Historical milestone · 1995
BDI agents
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1995 · Historical milestone
BDI agents
- Era
- 1990s
- Theme
- Agent planning & cognitive architectures
- Evidence form
- Formalized rational agents with beliefs, goals, intentions, events, and commitment strategies
- School / paradigm
- Belief-desire-intention
- Institution / context
- Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
- Researchers
- Anand Rao; Michael Georgeff
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Plain-language record, transferred from the reviewed source module.
Theory or experimental setup. Turned philosophical accounts of practical reasoning into implementable agent architectures and logics.
Result / historical claim. Symbolic beliefs and plans require engineering; uncertainty, learning, and open-world perception were limited.
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Evidence form. Formalized rational agents with beliefs, goals, intentions, events, and commitment strategies
Limitation / debate. Agent state machines, durable goals, plan libraries, and commitment/replanning policies.
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Appears in Reasoning enters real-time multimodal interaction.