Agent Properties

• Organization
  • Style of Control
    • Forward and Backward Chaining
    • Impasse-Driven Control
    • Serial Processing
    • Parallel Processing
    • Interruptible Processing
  • Hierarchical Organization
  • Modular Organization
  • Open-Loop Processing
  • Closed-Loop Processing
  • Bounded Rationality
• Memory, Knowledge and Representation
  • General Representation Issues
    • Symbolic Abstraction
    • Size of the Knowledge Base
    • Glass Box Approach (Declarative Represenations)
    • Black Box Approach (Procedural Representations)
    • Uniform Access to Knowledge
    • Uniform Knowledge Representation
    • Heterogeneous Knowledge Representation
    • No Explicit Knowledge Representation
  • Specific Examples of Representations and Memory Structures
    • Associative Memory
    • Episodic Knowledge
    • Meta-knowledge
    • First-Order Logic Representation
    • STRIPS-like Representation
    • Frame-Like Representations
    • Network Representations
• Properties Related to the Learning Capability
  • Deliberative Learning
  • Reflexive Learning
  • Generalization
  • Multiple Learning Methods
  • Explanation-Based Learning
  • Utility Problem
• Properties Related to the Planning Capability
  • Means-End Analysis Technique
  • Forward and Backward-Planning
• Performance and Perception
  • Behavior
  • Minimum Commitment Strategy
  • Reflexive Response to Stimuli
  • Self Modification
  • Processing Speed
  • Sensing Strategies and Attention
  • Effloresence of Adaptation

• Subsumption Architecture
• Heterogeneous Asynchronous Architecture (ATLANTIS)
• Plan-then-Compile Architecture (THEO)
• Planning and Learning Architecture (Prodigy)
• Modular-Integrated Architecture (ICARUS)
• Adaptive Intelligent Systems (AIS)
• Meta-Reasoning Architecture (MAX)
• A Basic Integrated Agent (Homer)
• Problem Solving Architecture (Soar)
• Situated and Planned Action Agent (Teton)
• Real-Time Decision Theoretic (Ralph-MEA)
• Entropy Reduction Engine (ERE)