Urging desire: Motivational mechanisms for intelligent agents with minds of their own

In this article, we examine ways to organize an intelligent autonomous agen t's goal system to simulate the behavior of a human worker in an enterprise modelling system called goal orientated multi-agent simulation environment (GOMASE). In GOMASE, an agent is supplied with a goal hierarchy, activity digraph, and a motivational mechanism in an attempt to simulate the goal's activation and attempted satisfaction. The attractiveness of this approach is that all the goals possessed by the agent are related via the ultimate l ife goals (i.e., self-preservation and species preservation). By using GOMA SE to model enterprises, the enterprise modeller can gain an insight into t he complex behavior of human workers and how they set, prioritize, and exec ute their goals. In this article, we also provide several sample runs of ou r system, with a brief explanation on the agent's behaviors.