Architecture Type

A cognitive architecture is the fixed structure upon which a content is varied in order to produce behaviors (Newell). It is an integration of all the components thought necessary for intelligence. There are many different ways to integrate the capabilities necessary for intelligence, as well as many different theories on what capabilities are actually necessary.

The categories below represent different veiws on how an integrated architecture should be organized and what the unifying principle of that architecture should be. By no means are these catagories inclusive of all possible organization schemes, nor do all architectures uniquely fall into a single category. They are simply nice, useable catagories with which one can base a comparison of organizing principles of multiple intelligent archetectures.

Layered Architecture composed of heirarchially organized interacting layers. Frame Based Architecture's knowledge represented using Slot/Frame method. Modular Architecture functionally decomposed into a set of interacting components. Central Problem Solver Architecture centered around a general problem solver. Asynchronous Components Architecture contains independant asynchronous modules Plan then Compile Architecture based on the ability to plan, then compile that plan to improve performance Multi-Component Architecture composed of mutiple, physically independant components Blackboard based Architecture organized on top of a blackboard system. Decision Cycle Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle. Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture composed of heirarchially organized interacting layers.
Frame Based Architecture's knowledge represented using Slot/Frame method. Modular Architecture functionally decomposed into a set of interacting components. Central Problem Solver Architecture centered around a general problem solver. Asynchronous Components Architecture contains independant asynchronous modules Plan then Compile Architecture based on the ability to plan, then compile that plan to improve performance Multi-Component Architecture composed of mutiple, physically independant components Blackboard based Architecture organized on top of a blackboard system. Decision Cycle Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle. Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture's knowledge represented using Slot/Frame method.
Modular Architecture functionally decomposed into a set of interacting components. Central Problem Solver Architecture centered around a general problem solver. Asynchronous Components Architecture contains independant asynchronous modules Plan then Compile Architecture based on the ability to plan, then compile that plan to improve performance Multi-Component Architecture composed of mutiple, physically independant components Blackboard based Architecture organized on top of a blackboard system. Decision Cycle Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle. Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture functionally decomposed into a set of interacting components.
Central Problem Solver Architecture centered around a general problem solver. Asynchronous Components Architecture contains independant asynchronous modules Plan then Compile Architecture based on the ability to plan, then compile that plan to improve performance Multi-Component Architecture composed of mutiple, physically independant components Blackboard based Architecture organized on top of a blackboard system. Decision Cycle Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle. Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture centered around a general problem solver.
Asynchronous Components Architecture contains independant asynchronous modules Plan then Compile Architecture based on the ability to plan, then compile that plan to improve performance Multi-Component Architecture composed of mutiple, physically independant components Blackboard based Architecture organized on top of a blackboard system. Decision Cycle Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle. Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture contains independant asynchronous modules
Plan then Compile Architecture based on the ability to plan, then compile that plan to improve performance Multi-Component Architecture composed of mutiple, physically independant components Blackboard based Architecture organized on top of a blackboard system. Decision Cycle Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle. Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture based on the ability to plan, then compile that plan to improve performance
Multi-Component Architecture composed of mutiple, physically independant components Blackboard based Architecture organized on top of a blackboard system. Decision Cycle Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle. Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture composed of mutiple, physically independant components
Blackboard based Architecture organized on top of a blackboard system. Decision Cycle Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle. Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture organized on top of a blackboard system.
Decision Cycle Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle. Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture based upon an explicit decision cycle.
Interruptable Architecture is designed to be interruptable: Architecture is designed to be interruptable

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