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ORGANIZATION

The term organization refers to the way in which the architecture is itself organized. Since all the architectures are very different the terms are used in a rather loose manner in an effort to describe the flavor of the particular architecture. The different types are:
Centralized
There is a central controler or loop of control which is solely responsible for determining the course of actions. All facets of the architecture are handled by the central controller.
Modular
The architecture is divided into several modules, each one of which is in charge of a particular aspect of the cognitive task (e.g. NLP, planning, execution).
Distributed
There is no central controller and no modules. The whole architecutre handles all cognitive tasks, where it is difficult to determine which part of the architecture are doing what (e.g. connectionist architectures).