Book review: Universal Subgoaling and Chunking: The automatic generation and learning of goal hierarchies by John Laird, Paul Rosenbloom, and Alan Newell
Art Murphy, V. Jagannathan, J. Bradshaw · ACM SIGART Bulletin · 1987
This book is two Ph.D theses bound together in one volume. The first thesis is by John Laird and is on "Universal Subgoaling" and the second thesis is on "The chunking of goal hierarchies" by Paul Rosenbloom. Alan Newell, their Ph.D advisor has an interesting preface, explaining how the respective thesis topics came into being. The first part (thesis) of the book is on developing a generalized problem solving architecture. The second part (thesis) is to develop a generalized learning system. The concluding section ties the loose ends together.