BDI Peasants Model for the WellProdSim Agent-Based Social Simulator

This article describes the design and implementation of BDI agents for the WellProdSim Social Simulator, a system that assesses the productivity and social wellbeing of Peasant Families. A first BDI emotional reasoning model was designed to incorporate personal and social wellbeing components in the agent that represents a Peasant Family. Furthermore, decision-making mechanisms based on variable modulation and fuzzy logic evaluation of human welfare were added. The evaluation aspects include health state, knowledge and skills, food consumption, emotional state and expected productivity. Preliminary results demonstrate a high quality in the proposed model; although, some elements with potential for improvement, in future work, were also identified.