Soar - Black Box Knowledge Representation

Description

• Soar's long term memory , represented uniformly as productions can not be directly accessed by the Soar agent.
• Knowledge in long term memory is indirectly accessed when a pattern of working memory elements matches the preconditions of a production.
• Thus a Soar agent is not able to directly manipulate the contents or effectiveness of the knowledge in its long term memory.
• The black box representation allows for flexibility in that there is no architecturally fixed representation of knowledge structures. For instance, operators are not limited to the predefined add and delete list structure that is inherent in STRIPS-style planning architectures.