For Readers Already Familiar with Cognitive Architectures
Of primary interest to the reader already familiar with cognitive
architectures will be contextual links(*)
between nodes. These links
demonstrate the relationship between the motivation for a particular
architecture, the architecture itself, properties of a particular
architecture, its resulting
capabilities, the environments in
which it does (and does not) function and general issues relating to all architectures.
For instance, the discussion of frames for the Theo architecture includes
contextual links relating frames to Theo's utilization of
meta-knowledge and an impasse-driven control strategy. The former
then suggests that meta-knowledge is used to realize meta-reasoning
and self-reflection in Theo while the latter demonstrates that
frames and the impasses defined in relation to frame slots
allow focused behavior in Theo. Thus, the use of contextual
links makes the relationship between different facets of the
architecture explicit. We believe that the framework we use for
developing these relationships and their explicit identification
constitutes a contribution to the field of agent and cognitive architectures.
*: The terms node, link, document,
contextual, and non-contextual are
defined in a separate node.
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