The parallel terraced scan is a
multi-agent
A multi-agent system (MAS or "self-organized system") is a computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents.Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Jang, I.; Arvin, F.; Lanzon, A.,A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework fo ...
based
search technique that is basic to
cognitive architecture A cognitive architecture refers to both a theory about the structure of the human mind and to a computational instantiation of such a theory used in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational cognitive science. The formalized mod ...
s, such as
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, Letter-string, the Examiner, Tabletop, and others. It was developed by
John Rehling and
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, an ...
at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at
Indiana University
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,
Bloomington.
The parallel terraced scan builds on the concepts of the workspace, coderack, conceptual memory, and temperature. According to Hofstadter the
parallel
Parallel is a geometric term of location which may refer to:
Computing
* Parallel algorithm
* Parallel computing
* Parallel metaheuristic
* Parallel (software), a UNIX utility for running programs in parallel
* Parallel Sysplex, a cluster of IBM ...
and
random
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nature of the processing captures aspects of human
cognition
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.
See also
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External links
The Parallel Terraced Scan: An Optimization For An Agent-Oriented Architecture(pdf)
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Cognitive architecture
Theory of computation