Modularity and Design in Reactive Intelligence

Software design is the hardest part of creating intelligent agents. Therefore agent architectures should be optimized as design tools. This paper presents an architectural synthesis between the three-layer architectures which dominate autonomous robotics and virtual reality, and a more agent-oriented approach to viewing behavior modules. We provide an approach, Behavior Oriented Design (BOD), for rapid, maintainable development. We demonstrate our approach by modeling primate learning.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: IJCAI
• Authors: Joanna Bryson, Lynn Andrea Stein
• Keywords: Agent Architectures, Agent-oriented Approach, Behavior Oriented Design, IJCAI 2001, IJCAI 2007