Levels of Importance

In a real, dynamic environment, events occur which relate to the agent in a variety of ways. Some of these events may be more important than others, such as an attacking (4-legged) elephant. It may be desireable for the agent to be able to react to events differently depending on how important it perceives them to be. This brings up the issue of interruptability and the associated cleanup problem. Also, is the agent only capable of reacting, or does it have the capability to do dynamic replanning?

Architectures which have levels of importance:

ATLANTIS (E. Gat)
Icarus (P. Langley and others)
MAX (D. Kuokka)
RALPH-MEA (G. Ogasawara)
SOAR (J. Laird, P. Rosenbloom, and others)
Subsumption Architecture (R. A. Brooks)
Theo (T. M. Mitchell and others)
Guardian (B. Hayes-Roth)

Architecture which do not have levels of importance:

Prodigy (J. Carbonell, C. Knoblock and S. Minton)
TETON (K. Vanlehn and W. Ball)
ERE (M. Drummond and others)
HOMER (S. Vere and T. Bickmore)

Other characteristics of the Environment and Agent Body

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