The ICARO goal driven agent pattern

Abstract

ICARO is an open source platform for the implementation of multi-agent systems (MAS), which provides architectural patterns for several types of agent models, following well established software engineering principles. This paper describes a pattern of cognitive agent, whose main characteristic is to be goa.l-driven, and its logic described as a rule based system. This has been used in different real projects and as a tool in a master course on the development of intelligent agent applications. Some of these are used to illustrate its use and explain some of the conclusions derived from these experiences, mostly from a software engineer point of view.