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An Overview of the MAX Architecture

MAX (A Meta-reasoning Architecture for "X") is a meta-reasoning architecture designed to integrate the reasoning, execution, and learning required of intelligent agents. MAX is based on the idea of specifying all the reasoning and learning capabilities of a system as explicit, declarative knowledge.

Most of the basic functionality of the MAX architecture is in the knowledge; this is so the system can be tailored to implement various capabilites. The knowledge consists of: behaviors which are analagous to problem spaces in Soar(sets of operators and rules), monitors which are like behavior rules but which can be defined dynamically and run in the background, and a storage area for current behavior which allows for self-reflection. MAX can also process other domain specific pieces of knowledge, given it is in the standardized declarative form that the other knowledge is.

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Sources and References

Kuokka, D. R., "MAX: A meta-reasoning architecture for 'X'," SIGART Bulletin 2, 1991, 93-97.