That is to say, it implements the notions of belief, desire and (in particular) intention, in a manner inspired by Bratman.
Research in this area has led, for example, to the axiomatization of some BDI implementations, as well as to formal logical descriptions such as Anand Rao and Michael Georgeff's BDICTL.
In principle, LORA allows reasoning not only about individual agents, but also about communication and other interaction in a multi-agent system.
This approach has recently been proposed by Steven Umbrello and Roman Yampolskiy as a means of designing autonomous vehicles for human values.
This section bounds the scope of concerns for the BDI software model, highlighting known limitations of the architecture.