Everything about Deliberative agent

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Deliberative agentA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Agent role structure and operating characteristics in large language model clinical classification: A comparative study of specialist and deliberative multi-agent protocolsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: A handbook of children and young people's participationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Flexible Agent Architecture: Mixing Reactive and Deliberative Behaviors in SPADECited 18 times
5. Go sideways: Belief–desire–intention software modelA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Procedural reasoning systemA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Flexible Agent Architecture: Mixing Reactive and Deliberative Behaviors in SPADE

  Javier Palanca, Jaime Andres Rincon, Carlos Carrascosa · 2023 · Electronics · 18 citations

• Deliberative democracy and public discourse: The agent-based argument repertoire model

  Ian S. Lustick, Dan Miodownik · 2000 · Complexity · 18 citations

• Mixing Dyadic and Deliberative Opinion Dynamics in an Agent‐Based Model of Group Decision‐Making

  George Butler, Gabriella Pigozzi, Juliette Rouchier · 2019 · Complexity · 11 citations

• Balanced reactive-deliberative architecture for multi-agent system for simulation league of RoboCup

  Min Wu, Wei-Hua Cao, Jun Peng · 2009 · International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems · 10 citations

• An agent-based model of deliberative democracy and polarization

  Bokwon Lee, Yohan Kim, K.M Lee · 2020 · The Journal of Mathematical Sociology · 6 citations

• DELIBERATIVE EVOLUTION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

  F. M. T. BRAZIER, C. M. JONKER, J. TREUR · 2001 · International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 5 citations

• A deliberative scheduling technique for a real-time agent architecture

  L. Hernández, V. Botti, A. García-Fornes · 2006 · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 3 citations

• An Agent-Based Model of Deliberative Democracy and Polarization

  Bokwon Lee, Yohan Kim, Kyu-Min Lee · 2020 · SSRN Electronic Journal · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Agent role structure and operating characteristics in large language model clinical classification: A comparative study of specialist and deliberative multi-agent protocols

  Callum Anderson · 2026 · Informatics in Medicine Unlocked · 1 citations

• Safety in numbers: Tackling the deliberative, performative, and infrastructural roots of multi‐agent misalignment

  Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew Johnson, Niranjan Suri · 2026 · AI Magazine · 0 citations

• LLM-FS-Agent: a deliberative role-based large language model architecture for transparent feature selection

  Mohamed Bal-Ghaoui, Fayssal Sabri · 2026 · IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• A handbook of children and young people's participationBarry Percy-Smith · 2009
• A Hybrid Deliberative Layer for Robotic AgentsRonny Hartanto · 2011
• Critical rhetorics of raceMichael G. Lacy, Kent A. Ono · 2011
• The Age of Direct Citizen Participation (Aspa Classics)Nancy C. Roberts · 2008
• 📕A Deliberative Account of CausationAlison Sutton Fernandes · 2016
• 📕Le marché de la démocratie participativeAlice Mazeaud, Magali Nonjon · 2018
• 📕Empowering leadersDaniel Pekarsky · 2021
• Ancient Greek IIPhilip S. Peek, Open Book Publishers · 2025

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