Multi-Paradigm Integration for the BDI Resurgence

At the beginning of the millennium, scenarios typical of autonomic and self-organizing systems seemed to be better tackled with techniques designed for multi-agent systems, among them, Belief-Desire-Intention cognitive model was considered particularly promising. As the years went by, however, interest decreased in the community of self-* systems for the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) approach despite new proposals still sharing a strong resemblance with the defining features of BDI agents. In this position paper, we investigate the reasons behind this trend, suggesting that, rather than being a sign of the inadequacy of Belief-Desire-Intention, it might be a sign of the inadequacy of tools and frameworks available to support them.