Angelo Ferrando, Andrea Gatti, Viviana Mascardi
Sebastian Rodriguez, Lu Feng, Jörg P. Müller (eds.)
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: 13th International Workshop, EMAS 2025, Detroit, MI, USA, May 19–20, 2025, Revised Selected Papers, pages 117–140
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) 16407
Springer Nature Switzerland
February 2026
The connections between neuroscience findings and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are very strong, but literature that analyzes how neuroscience inspired AI, and viceversa, mainly takes a machine learning point of view. However, intelligent software agents modeled after the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) architecture have many ties with neuroscience. Some are explicitly expressed, others are less evident and deserve to be better addressed and understood. In order to explore such ties and make their hidden potential exploitable, we introduce the BDI-inspired MEDiTATe conceptual framework encompassing theory of Mind, Emotions, Deep TAlk, and small Talk.
keywords
MEDiTATe, Deep Talk, Small Talk, Neuroscience, Mind, Emotions, Beliefs-Desires-Intentions, BDI, Cognitive Agents, Jason
journal or series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS)
funding project
ENGINES — ENGineering INtElligent Systems around intelligent agent technologies
(28/09/2023–27/02/2026)
