Abstract
This theoretical paper introduces a formal architecture that supports the integration of various A.I. technologies, including planning, to make an autonomous agent.
The design decisions made are self-consciously minimal, resulting in a simple but general architecture. Its functionality appears comparable to other agent architectures in the literature, including the incorporation of a reactive element.
Novelties in the architecture include “cognitive reactivity,” a formal notion of relevance, and attention, and a control regime based on these. An initial implementation is briefly described.
We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers of this paper for their helpful comments. The first author is supported by a grant from the NWO, the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research. We would also like to thank the authors of GNU software, all members of the Linux project, and free software contributors everywhere, without whom the development of Will would have been much harder.
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Moffat, D., Frijda, N.H. (1995). Where there's a Will there's an agent. In: Wooldridge, M.J., Jennings, N.R. (eds) Intelligent Agents. ATAL 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 890. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58855-8_16
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