Modularization in Belief-Desire-Intention agent programming and artifact-based environments.

This article proposes an extension for the Agents and Artifacts meta-model to enable modularization. We adopt the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model of agency to represent independent and reusable units of code by means of modules. The key idea behind our proposal is to take advantage of the syntactic notion of namespace, , a unique symbol identifier to organize a set of programming elements.