| I. A. Ferguson, "TouringMachines: An architecture for dynamic, rational, mobile agents," Ph.D. thesis, Comput. Sci. Lab., Univ. Cambridge, U.K., 1992. |
....layer for execution has been found. From these, activity spreads back downward to the BBL, which is the only layer with direct access to the actoric functions defined in the agent s world interface. This is an important difference to the other layered architectures such as those by Ferguson [10] and Kaebling [27] in which there is concurrent access both to sensory input and actoric output, and conflicts among the layers must be solved by applying appropriate global filtering and suppression mechanisms to ensure that a specific layer only sees those parts of the input that are relevant ....
I. A. Ferguson, "TouringMachines: An architecture for dynamic, rational, mobile agents," Ph.D. thesis, Comput. Sci. Lab., Univ. Cambridge, U.K., 1992.
....(BDI) model (Rao and Georgeff, 1995) Hybrid agent architecture: This architecture is a coupling of the two above architectures. It therefore integrates a rapid response mechanism with the pro active behaviour enabled by planning. A good example of a hybrid agent architecture is given in (Ferguson, 1992). Jennings et al. (1992) state the importance of adopting the appropriate agent internal architecture and how it is intimately related to system level performance. The fact that there is no longer just one aim for the whole system [for a MAS] requires the agent architecture to reflect the dual ....
Ferguson, I. A. (1992) `TouringMachines: An Architecture for Dynamic, Rational, Mobile Agents'. PhD Thesis, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, U.K. 1992.
....that have tackled the combination of these paradigms. Such agent systems are denoted as hybrid frameworks (Wooldridge and Jennings 1995) Nwana 1996) Some of the arguments for the use of hybrid frameworks are quite intuitive, for example reaction is generally more robust, timely, and adaptive (Ferguson 1992). The planning attribute deals with more global, long term considerations of the system. Generally planning systems have based their emphasis on the creation of a sequence of actions to be carried out such that a goal state is arrived at. One of the major problems with this kind of planning is ....
Ferguson, I., A., (1992) `TouringMachines: An Architecture for Dynamic, Rational, Mobile Agents', PhD Thesis, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, U.K. 1992.
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