com.agentfactory.cldc
Class RetractActuator

java.lang.Object
  com.agentfactory.cldc.logic.Action
      com.agentfactory.cldc.Actuator
          com.agentfactory.cldc.RetractActuator

public class RetractActuator
extends Actuator

Enables an agent to retract a belief. The trigger for this actuator is retractBelief(?belief), where the ?belief variable represents the belief that is to be dropped.

Author:

Conor Muldoon

Constructor Summary

RetractActuator(AffectManager manager)
Creates an instance of RetractActuator.

Method Summary

boolean

act(FOS action) The act method is implemented by concrete classes of Action.

Methods inherited from class com.agentfactory.cldc.Actuator

adoptBelief, adoptBelief, register, retractBelief

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RetractActuator

public RetractActuator(AffectManager manager)

Creates an instance of RetractActuator.

Parameters:

manager - the affect manager for the agent.

Method Detail

act

public boolean act(FOS action)

Description copied from class: Action

The act method is implemented by concrete classes of Action. It provides the imperative functionality of the action.

Specified by:

act in class Action

Parameters:

action - the applied first order stucture, which matches with the identifier for the Actuator or Action.

Returns:

true if the action was successful, false otherwise.