The belief-desire-intention (BDI) architecture has been proposed to support the development of rational agents, integrating theoretical foundations of BDI agents, their implementation, and the building of large-scale multi-agent applications. However, the BDI architecture, as initially proposed, does not provide adequate concepts to produce modular software components. The capability concept em...

Faster turnaround time of the vessels in berths has direct impact on the improvement of terminals productivity. The need for an intelligent system that dynamically adapts to the changing environment is apparent, as there is limited number of berths and resources available in container terminals for delivering services to vessels. BDI (Beliefs, Desires and Intentions) agents are being proposed i...

This chapter describes the priciples of the Jadex programming model. The programming model can be considered on two levels. The intra-agent level deals with programming concepts for single agents and the inter-agent level deals with interactions between agents. Regarding the rst, the Jadex beliefdesire-intention (BDI) model will be presented, which has been developed for agents based on XML and...

Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents have been investigated by many researchers from both a theoretical specification perspectiveand a practical design perspective. However, there still remains a large gap between theory and practice. The main reason for this has been the complexity of theorem-proving or modelchecking in these expressive specification logics. Hence, the implemented BDI systems ...

In this paper, we introduce a unique implementation scheme of the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model to be used in an agentbased application using Java. The example prototype system is the Agent-based Stock Trader (AST) that is a stock-trading expert based on intelligent agents. Agents in AST are based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model in artificial intelligence. This paper proposes h...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is a growing health problem in South Asia. Despite an increasing number of studies exploring causal pathways between diabetes and depression in high-income countries (HIC), the pathway between the two disorders has received limited attention in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). The aim of this study is to investigate the potential pathway of diabetes contributing to de...

OBJECTIVE We set out to adapt the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)-II in Kenya and examine its factorial structure. METHODS In the first phase we carried out in-depth interviews involving 29 adult members of the community to elicit their understanding of depression and identify aspects of the BDI-II that required adaptation. In the second phase, a modified version of BDI-II was administered to...

BACKGROUND Patients with chronic heart failure (HF) and with elevated depression symptoms are at greater risk of morbidity and mortality. Somatic symptoms of depression are particularly prevalent in HF and are related to worse disease prognosis. T'ai chi practice is related to increased emotional well-being in various clinical populations; however, relatively little is known about t'ai chi's ef...