Current agent architectures implementing the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model consider agents which respond reactively to internal and external events by selecting first-available plan. Priority between plans is hard-coded in program, so reasons why a certain plan preferred remain programmer’s mind. Recent works that attempt include explicit preferences BDI treat essentially as rationale for...

OBJECTIVE To identify items on the BDI-II that best discriminate between clinically depressed and nondepressed postpartum women. BACKGROUND Postpartum depression is a serious and widespread health burden, and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) is commonly used to detect depression in the postpartum. Yet certain depressive symptoms are "normative" sequelae of childbirth, calling into quest...

BACKGROUND The relationship between depression and severe obesity is unclear. We examined depression before and after surgically induced weight loss. METHODS Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) questionnaires were completed before and at yearly intervals after gastric-restrictive weight-loss surgery. We used the BDI scores of 487 consecutive patients to identify predictors of depression. Scores f...

The notion of an intelligent agent as an entity which appears to be the subject of mental attitudes like beliefs, desires and intentions (hence, the BDI acronym) is well known and accepted by many researchers. Besides the definition of various BDI logics, many languages and integrated environments for programming BDI-style agents have been proposed since the early nineties. In this reasoned bib...