Computer Model of Emotional Agents

This article presents a computer model of intelligent agents inhabiting a virtual world. The agents combine the following basic components: necessities, knowledge of the world, knowledge of themselves, emotions, rules, meta-rules, actions, and characteristics. Some of characteristics are: energy, work, adaptation and inertia. The relations between the components are shown and the possibilities for their quantitative representation are suggested. In the software model we developed the agent parameters are stored in relational tables, which makes their effective modification possible. The agents based on this architecture can be visualized graphically. The agent’s state and the reasons for this state are always known. Every state of the agent corresponds to an appropriate face, body, and gesture expression and behavior. The experiment and the obtained results are described.