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systems, depicting the arrangement of components. The architectures implemented by

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s.Comparison of Agent Architectures
The term agent is a conceptual idea, but not defined precisely. It consists of facts, set of goals and sometimes a plan library.

Types

Reactive architectures

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Deliberative reasoning architectures

* Procedural reasoning system (PRS)

Layered/hybrid architectures

* 3T * AuRA
Brahms
* GAIuS * GRL * ICARUS * InteRRaP * TinyCog * TouringMachines

Cognitive architectures

* ASMO * Soar *

ACT-R ACT-R (pronounced /ˌækt ˈɑr/; short for "Adaptive Control of Thought—Rational") is a cognitive architecture mainly developed by John Robert Anderson and Christian Lebiere at Carnegie Mellon University. Like any cognitive architecture, ACT- ...

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Cougaar Cougaar (acronym of ''Cognitive Agent Architecture'') is a Java agent architecture. History of Cougaar Cougaar Software Inc. was formed in 2001. Investment in this project dates back to 1996 through DARPA. DARPA began funding projects to develop ...

* PRODIGY *

FORR FORR (FOr the Right Reasons) is a cognitive architecture for learning and problem solving inspired by Herbert A. Simon's ideas of bounded rationality and satisficing. It was first developed in the early 1990s at the City University of New York. ...

References

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