Soar - Chunking

Description

• All learning occurs in Soar through the "chunking" mechanism.
• Chunking is a form of explanation based learning.
• Whenever the decision cycle returns a result to a supergoal, a new production is created whose conditions are the elements tested which existed before the impasse, and whose actions are the preferences returned. This production is called a "chunk".
• These new chunks are placed in long term memory immediately, and are available on the next elaboration phase, thus Soar's learning is intermixed with it's problem solving.