Soar Methodological Assumptions: Pushing Architecture to the Extreme
The Soar architecture is not a single system used by a small group of
people. Rather it is used by a community of researchers (known loosely
as
"The Soar Project") who apply it to different problems and domains
(e.g., see
NL-Soar and
Instructo-Soar in this document).
The effect of all this use is that the architecture is stretched and
pushed, resulting in a better evaluation of its goal to cover the
requirements of general intelligence. Thus, the architecture may be
used by cognitive psychologists to postulate some mechanisms for
observed human data, by computer scientists interested in the
computational complexities of production systems, and by engineers who
apply the architecture to specific domains and measure its performance.
Their results then feed back into the architecture,
sometimes reinforcing the
motivating hypotheses, sometimes
suggesting improvements or pointing out
deficiencies in these hypotheses.
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