Taking (Computer) Architecture Seriously
Ian Douglas Horswill · 1995
There seems to be little consensus on what an agent architecture is. In this paper I will talk about ar-chitectures in computer design, and programming languages, and what their distinctions are. I will then discuss agent architectures relative to that distinction. Finally, I will discuss recent work I have done on building better computer architec-tures for agency. One of the problems with writing about agent archi-tectures is that I don’t have a good sense of what an agent architectures are supposed to be, much less how to evaluate them or what the right one is. In this posi-tion paper, I’ll compare agent architectures to computer architectures and programming languages, which I feel