Agent architecture in
computer science
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is a
blueprint
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for
software agent
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The term ''agent'' is derived from the Latin ''agere'' (to do): an agreement to act on one's behalf. Such "action on ...
s and
intelligent control
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systems, depicting the arrangement of components. The architectures implemented by
intelligent agent
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s are referred to as
cognitive architecture
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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
* Subsumption
Subsumption may refer to:
* A minor premise in symbolic logic (see syllogism)
* The Liskov substitution principle in object-oriented programming
* Subtyping in programming language theory
* Subsumption architecture in robotics
* A subsumption ...
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 ...
Brahms
* LIDA
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Etymology
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* PreAct
* Cougaar
* PRODIGY
* FORR
See also
* Action selection
Action selection is a way of characterizing the most basic problem of intelligent systems: what to do next. In artificial intelligence and computational cognitive science, "the action selection problem" is typically associated with intelligent ...
* Cognitive architecture
A cognitive architecture is 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. These formalized models ...
* Real-time Control System
Real-time Control System (RCS) is a reference model enterprise architecture, architecture, suitable for many software-intensive, real-time computing control problem domains. It defines the types of functions needed in a real-time intelligent contr ...
References
Software architecture
Robot architectures
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