Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software Engineering and Cognitive Systems

Papers from the 2004 AAAI Workshop

Randolph M. Jones, Program Chair

Technical Report WS-04-07 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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Organizing Committee / iii
Randolph M. Jones

RCS: An Intelligent Agent Architecture / 1
Jim Albus, Tony Barbera, and Craig Schlenoff

Specification of a Test Environment and Performance Measures for Perturbation-Tolerant Cognitive Agents / 11
Michael L. Anderson

Integrating ACT-R and Cyc in a Large-Scale Model of Language Comprehension for Use in Intelligent Agents / 19
Jerry Ball, Stuart Rodgers, and Kevin Gluck

Design Principles for Learning Agents / 26
Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Dorin Marcu, Marcel Barbulescu, and Cristina Boicu

Agents with Non-Anthropomorphic Lifecycles / 34
Ladislau Bölöni, Paul DeJung, and Damla Turgut

Designing a Problem Specific Design Process for Multi-Agent Systems / 39
Massimo Cossentino and Antonio Chella

Responsibility-Driven Explanation Engineering for Cognitive Models / 46
Steven R. Haynes, Isaac G. Councill, and Frank E. Ritter

Toward an Abstract Machine Architecture for Intelligence / 53
Randolph M. Jones and Robert E. Wray

Balancing Formal and Practical Concerns in Agent Design / 60
David Morley and Karen Myers

The APOC Framework for the Comparison of Agent Architectures / 66
Matthias Scheutz and Virgil Andronache

Applying Cyc: Using the Knowledge-Based Data Monitor to Track Tests and Defects / 74
Nick Siegel, Gavin Matthews, James Masters, Robert Kahlert, Michael Witbrock, and Karen Pittman

Invited Speaker Abstracts

Plans, Behaviors, and Generativity / 80
Ian Horswill

Research in Cognitive Architectures: A Component-level of Analysis of Soar / 81
John E. Laird

Cognitive Architectures and the Construction of Intelligent Agents / 82
Pat Langley

A Big but Bridgeable Gap: From Deliberative Planning to Real-Time Execution and Learning / 83
Manuela Veloso

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