BDI (Belief–Desire–Intention)

Classical cognitive architecture for autonomous agents introduced by Rao & Georgeff (1995, ref [38] in APM Manifesto). Models agents in terms of:

Beliefs — what the agent knows / holds true about the world.
Desires — the agent's goals or preferred states.
Intentions — committed-to plans for achieving goals.

Role in APM

Cited as one of the classic AI constructs the APM manifesto builds on when consolidating a unified specification schema for an APM agent (sources/2026-calvanese-agentic-bpm-manifesto, §2.2.2). Maps naturally onto the agent's mental model (beliefs, perceptions) and intentional model (goals, obligations) in the concepts/perceive-reason-act loop.

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