A Natural inclusion of Motives inside BDI agents

The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model is amongst the most popular approaches to design agents with flexible behaviors. It is based essentially on the processing of beliefs and goals. On the other hand, it is well accepted that the motive is another relevant concept for the agent's reasoning and its flexibility. As the BDI model does not include this important concept, several BDI agent' s extensions, with a new and a special component expressing the motive, were proposed in the literature. In this paper, we show that it is not necessary to add this new component to express a motive, as a motive can be expressed by a particular type of goal. This allows including and taking advantage from the reasoning about motives without additional components.