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Soar: A Cognitive Architecture in Perspective

A Tribute to Allen Newell

Part of the book series: Studies in Cognitive Systems (COGS, volume 10)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • John A. Michon, Aladin Akyürek, Groningen Soar Research Group
    Pages 1-10
  3. Allen Newell: A Portrait

    • John A. Michon
    Pages 11-23
  4. On a Computational Model of Human Planning

    • Aladin Akyürek
    Pages 81-108
  5. Means-Ends Planning: An Example Soar System

    • Aladin Akyürek
    Pages 109-167
  6. Multitasking in Driving

    • Jans Aasman, John A. Michon
    Pages 169-198
  7. Flattening Goal Hierarchies

    • Jans Aasman, Aladin Akyürek
    Pages 199-217
  8. Knowledge Level and Inductive Uses of Chunking (EBL)

    • Paul S. Rosenbloom, Jans Aasman
    Pages 219-234
  9. Basic References for Soar

    • John A. Michon, Aladin Akyürek
    Pages 235-237
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 239-249

About this book

Soar: A Cognitive Architecture in Perspective represents a European perspective on Soar with the exception of the special contribution from Allen Newell arguing for Unified Theories of Cognition.
The various papers derive from the work of the Soar Research Group that has been active at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, since 1987. The work reported here has been inspired in particular by two topics that precipitated the group's interest in Soar in the first place -- road user behavior and the temporal organization of behavior, more specifically planning. At the same time, the various contributions go well beyond the simple use of Soar as a convenient medium for modeling human cognitive activity. In every paper one or more fundamental issues are raised that touch upon the very nature and consistency of Soar as an intelligent architecture. As a result the reader will learn about the operator implementation problem, chunking, multitasking, the need to constrain the depth of the goal stack, and induction, etc.
Soar is still at a relatively early stage of development. It does, nevertheless, constitute an important breakthrough in the area of computer architectures for general intelligence. Soar shows one important direction that future efforts to build intelligent systems should take if they aim for a comprehensive, and psychologically meaningful, theory of cognition. This is argued in a powerful way by Newell in his contribution to this volume. For this reason, the Soar system will probably play an important integrative role within cognitive science in bringing together important subdomains of psychology, computer science, linguistics, and the neurosciences. Although Soar is not the only `architecture for intelligence', it is one of the most advanced and theoretically best motivated architectures presently available.
Soar: A Cognitive Architecture in Perspective is of special interest to researchers in the domains of cognitive science, computer science and artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of mind.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    John A. Michon, Aladin Akyürek

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Soar: A Cognitive Architecture in Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: A Tribute to Allen Newell

  • Editors: John A. Michon, Aladin Akyürek

  • Series Title: Studies in Cognitive Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2426-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1660-2Published: 29 February 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5070-8Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2426-3Published: 12 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-0780

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 249

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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