Requirements & Designs: Asking Scientic Questions About Architectures (original) (raw)

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This paper discusses our views on the future of the eld of cognitive architectures, and how the scien- tic questions that dene it should be addressed. We also report on a set of requirements, and a related architecture design, that we are currently investigating as part of the CoSy project. 1 What Are Architectures? The rst problem we face as researchers in the eld of cognitive architectures is dening exactly what we are studying. This is important because the term ìarchitectureî is so widely used in modern techno- logical elds. An agent's cognitive architecture de- nes the information-processing components within the ìmindî of the agent, and how these components are structured in relation to each other. Also, there is a close link between architectures and the mech- anisms and representations used within them (where representations can be of many kinds with many func- tions). Langley and Laird (2002) describe a cognitive architecture as including ìthose aspects of a cognitive ...

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