Indefinitely Large Knowledge Base in Soar
Since
productions can be easily
added to the
knowledge base or
learned in Soar, the knowledge base
may grow incrementally to cover a wider range of behaviors. The
ultimate size of the knowledge base is dictated only by the desired
functionality; no absolute limits (other than those of the computer
system on which the system is implemented) are made by the architecture
or the representation. In particular, several projects (see
Instructo-Soar and
TacAir-Soar) have merged an existing
Soar system (in this case,
NL-Soar) with other productions for a
domain-specific task successfully. These mergers could also extend
indefinitely, integrating the
behavioral
capabilities
of Soar systems. However, there are are concerns
that for such large Soar systems, the
average growth effect will eventually
establish a limit to the effective size of the knowledge base for
efficient and
reactive systems.
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