Issues Related to all Architectures
Although architectures may be characterized according to their
properties, their
capabilities, and the
environments for which they are designed,
additional questions about the architectural properties
(as distinct from agent or behavioral properties) also exist.
For example, how will some particular architecture scale?
Or, to what extent does this architecture bring relevant knowledge
to bear on some particular problem? These issues in general
are not usually answered with simple responses (such as "Yes, the architecture will scale"
or "No, the architecture is not completely rational").
Instead the questions suggest a continuum of possibilities for each issue.
This section of the document introduces each of these issues
which are then elaborated for individual architectures within the
discussion of that architecture.
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