An agent belief system for multi-agent systems

Within the field of DAI, an agent must cooperate with other agents, the research on agent modelling is important. In this paper, a multi-agent system, MAPE(Mulit-agent Processing Environment), is described, and the belief state model for an autonomous agent in the MAPE is presented. Our main focus is on the agent's structure, agent's belief and the connection between communication among agents and the changes of their belief states in the multi-agent societies where knowledge communication plays a key role among agents. We also propose some domain independent defaults for cooperating problem-solving in the communication situation by passing messages.