Introducing a novel model of belief-desire-intention agent for urban land use planning

Land use planning is a potentially demanding search and optimization task that has been challenged by numerous researchers in the field of spatial planning. Agent and multi-agent systems are examples of the modern concepts, which have been gaining more attention in challenging spatial issues recently. Although the efficiency of belief, desire, and intention (BDI) architecture of agents is validated in varieties of sciences, its uses in Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and specifically among spatial planners is still burgeoning. In this paper, we attempted to integrate the concepts of BDI agent architecture into spatial issues; as a result, a novel spatial agent model is designed and implemented to analyze the urban land use planning. The proposed approach was checked in urban land use planning problems using a case study in a municipal area. The result of implementation showed the effects of spatial agents' behaviors such as intention, commitment, and interaction on their decision.

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