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
• Beliefs room status and schedule
• Desires provide reservation to client
• Intentions order to clean

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Types of Agent and theirs duties 2

• Hotel maid duties
• Room cleaning on managers demand
• Taking new stuff (bedclothes, towels etc.) from
  warehouse manager and giving him used ones
• Beliefs room stuff and cleaning stuff status
• Desires make room clean
• Intentions clean room, exchange used stuff with
  warehouse

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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
• Intentions exchange used stuff with maids

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Old Use Case Diagram
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Reduced Use Case Diagram
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Possible scenario

• Hotel manager receives room reservation request,
  find room that is not occupied. When room become
  free again occupation ended, then send to one
  of Maids cleaning request.
• Maid receives refill order, end refill Maid
  cleaning stuff. After Maids clean up room she
  send answer to Hotel manager that room have
  cleaning status ok and it could be rent for
  another client.
• Maid receives cleaning request, starts to
  cleaning room. If Maid have lack of towels,
  toilet paper or soap she made an order to
  Warehouse manager to refill.

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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