Enabling agents to work together

l Paradigm 1: Competence emerges from a large number of relatively simple agents integrated by some cleverly engineered architecture. The choice of architecture is the make-or-break theoretical part of this; the detailed characteristics of the implementation of the architecture (and the algorithms that crawl around it) are the make-orbreak pragmatic parts. The archetype of this paradigm is SOAR [61; its forerunners were the early “pure production systems.”