BDI agents for hotel cleaning up

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BDI agents for hotel cleaning up

• Krzysztof Pawlak Tomasz Kramek

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BDI software agent

• In our agent system proposed here, each agent is
  made flesh by assigning its own Belief
  (knowledge), Desire and Intention.
• Each of ours agent we could describe with four
  characteristic
• Situated - they are embedded in their hotel
  environment
• Goal directed - they have goals that they try to
  achieve
• Reactive - they react to changes in their
  environment
• Social - they can communicate with other agents

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Agents properties

• Each agent is characterize by own
• Beliefs - represent the informational state of
  the agent - in other words its beliefs about the
  world (including itself and other agents)
• Desires - (or goals) represent the motivational
  state of the agent. They represent objectives or
  situations that the agent would like to
  accomplish or bring about.
• Intentions - represent the deliberative state of
  the agent what the agent has chosen to do.
• Plans - are sequences of actions that an agent
  can perform to achieve one or more of its
  intentions.

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Types of Agent and theirs duties 1

• Hotel manager duties
• Rooms supervising (occupation checking, making
  reservation)
• Gives Cleaning orders
• Gives Fixing orders
• Needs submission
• Beliefs room status and schedule
• Desires provide reservation to client
• Intentions order to clean / order to fix

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Types of Agent and theirs duties 2

• Hotel maid duties
• Room cleaning (i.e. cyclic) (changing bedclothes,
  tablecloths and towels, vacuuming, bathroom
  cleaning, cabinet keeping)
• Room cleaning on managers demand
• Defects submission
• Taking new stuff (bedclothes, towels etc.) from
  warehouse manager and giving him used ones
• Beliefs room stuff and device status
• Desires make room clean / defect detection
• Intentions clean room / submits defects /
  exchange used stuff with warehouse

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Types of Agent and theirs duties 3

• Maintenance technician duties
• Fixing on managers demand
• Fixing defects discover by maid
• Cyclic room checking (are devices work O.K)
• Beliefs rooms device status
• Desires fix all defects
• Intentions fix defects

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Types of Agent and theirs duties 4

• Warehouse manager duties
• Stuff management in warehouse (exchanging used
  stuff with maids)
• Making orders of cleaning stuff
• Making special orders on managers demand
• Beliefs stuff in warehouse / actual orders
• Desires constantly have enough stuff to
  exchange / order new stuff
• Intentions exchange used stuff with maids

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Use Case Diagram
Possible scenario Hotel manager receives room
reservation request, find room that has free
schedule at this time, gives cleaning order to
maid. Free Maid receives cleaning request,
starts to cleaning room, during cleaning defects
submission and gives know about it to Maintenance
technician, after exchange used stuff with
Warehouse manager and ends cleaning. Hotel
manager check that rooms needs, fixing and
cleaning status are ok and decide that room is
ready for client.
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BDI Agent Implementations

• 1. Jadex BDI Agent System http//vsiswww.informati
  k.uni-hamburg.de/projects/jadex/
• 2. JADE Semantics Add-on http//jade.tilab.com/pap
  ers/2005/JADEWorkshopAAMAS/AAMAS-JADE-WS-29-july-2
  005.pdf