FAtiMA (Fearnot AffecTIve Mind Architecture) is an Agent Architecture with planning capabilities designed to use emotions and personality to influence the agent’s behaviour.

2.  Scenarios – Configures the agents and the scenarios for
the WorldSimulator
 GoalLibrary – Defines the goals used by agent’s
deliberative component
 Actions – Definition of actions to be used by the planner
 Role – defines the personality of the agent
 Goals
 Personality thresholds
 Emotional Reaction Rules
 Action Tendencies
Authoring Files

3. Scenarios
<Scenarios>
<Scenario name="SimpleScenario">
- <WorldSimulator port="46874" scenery="Office"
actionsFile="data/characters/minds/WorkshopActions.xml"
agentLanguageFile="data/characters/minds/language/agent/en/language-set-1"
userOptionsFile="WorkshopOptions">
- <Objects>
<Object name="apple" />
<Object name="chocolate" />
</Objects>
</WorldSimulator>
- <Agent name="Guilhas" displayName="Guilhas" role="Guilhas" platform="worldsim" host="l
port="46874" displayMode="True" sex="M" actionsFile="WorkshopActions"
goalsFile="WorkshopGoalLibrary" cultureName="NoCulture" load="false">
- <Properties>
<Property name="location" value="Office" />
<Property name="time" value="Morning" />
<Property name="isPerson" value="True" />
</Properties>
</Agent>
</Scenario>
</Scenarios>

4. Defining John’s
Personality
Emotional
Dispositions
Emotional Reactions
Goals
Action Tendencies

5. Defining John’s Personality
<EmotionalThreshold emotion="Love"
threshold="3" decay="5" />
<EmotionalThreshold emotion="Hate"
threshold="3" decay="5" />
<EmotionalThreshold emotion="Hope"
threshold="4" decay="8" />
<EmotionalThreshold emotion="Fear"
threshold="1" decay="2" />
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<EmotionalThreshold emotion="Reproach"
threshold="2" decay="8" />
<EmotionalThreshold emotion="Gratitude"
threshold="3" decay="5" />
<EmotionalThreshold emotion="Anger"
threshold="3" decay="5" />
Emotional Dispositions

6. Defining John’s Personality
Emotional
Reactions
<EmotionalReaction desirability="-5" praiseworthiness="-5">
<Event action="SpeechAct"
parameters="sabotageinvitation,[SELF]" />
</EmotionalReaction>
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<EmotionalReaction desirability="-4" praiseworthiness="-3">
<Event action="SpeechAct" target="[SELF]"
parameters="insult" />
</EmotionalReaction>

7. Defining John’s Personality
Action Tendencies
<ActionTendency action="SpeechAct([Subject],insult)">
<Preconditions />
<ElicitingEmotion type="Anger“ minIntensity="5">
<CauseEvent />
</ElicitingEmotion>
</ActionTendency>
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<ActionTendency action="cry">
<Preconditions />
<ElicitingEmotion type="Distress" minIntensity="6">
<CauseEvent />
</ElicitingEmotion>
</ActionTendency>

8. Defining John’s Personality
Goals
<Goal name="Eat([target])"
importanceOfSuccess="4" importanceOfFailure="3" />
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9.  Goal Definition
 Preconditions
 FailureConditions
 SuccessConditions
 Action Definition
 Preconditions
 Effects (probability)
How to write goals and actions

10. Conditions
Autobiographic Memory
Episode 1
•Event 1
•Event 2
Episode 2
•Event 1
•Event 2
Episode n
•Event 1
•Event 2
Knowledge Base
PropertiesRelations
Emotional
State
Recent Event
Conditions
Past Event
Conditions
Property
Conditions
Emotional State
Conditions
New Event
Conditions

11.  Symbols
 True and False
 SELF
 Constants: 25, high, test
 Variables: [x], [AGENT]
 ComposedNames
 John(Strenght)
 Apple(eatable)
 Friends(John,Luke)
 Cry()
 Push(John)
Writing conditions

12. <ActivePursuitGoal name="Eat([target])">
<PreConditions>
<Property name="[target](eatable)" operator="=" value="True" />
<Property name="[target](onfloor)" operator="=" value="True" />
</PreConditions>
<SucessConditions>
<NewEvent occurred="True" subject="SELF" action="Eat"
target="[target]" />
</SucessConditions>
<FailureConditions />
Goal Example

13. <Action name="Pick([target])">
<PreConditions>
<Property name="[AGENT]" operator="!=" value="[target]" />
<Property name="[target](onfloor)" operator="=" value="True" />
</PreConditions>
<Effects>
<Effect probability="1.0">
<Property name="[target](onfloor)" operator="=" value="False" />
</Effect>
<Effect probability="1.0">
<Property name="[AGENT](has,[target])" operator="=" value="True" />
</Effect>
</Effects>
</Action>
Action Example

14. Questions?