Lecture 7 - theimpactinstitute.org

Deliberative ArchitecturesDeliberative Architectures• basis is physical-symbol system hypothesis: “A physicalsymbol system is defined to be a physically realizable set ofphysical entities (symbols) that can be combined to formstructures, and which is capable of running processes thatoperate on those symbols according to symbolically codedsets of instructions. The physical-symbol system hypothesisthen says that such a system is capable of general intelligentaction.”• a deliberative agent or agent architecture:- has a symbolic model of the world- decisions result from logical reasoning (i.e. symbolicmanipulation)18 June 2012 Multi-Agent Systems 15