<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> An agent achieves its goals by interacting with its environment, cyclically choosing and executing suitable actions. An action execution process is a reasonable and critical part of an entire cognitive architecture, because the process of generating executable motor commands is not only driven by low-level environmental information, but is also initiated and affected by the agent’s high-level mental processes. This review focuses on cognitive models of action, or more specifically, of the action execution process, as implemented in a set of popular cognitive architectures. We examine the representations and procedures inside the action execution process, as well as the cooperation between action execution and other high-level cognitive modules. We finally conclude with some general observations regarding the nature of action execution.</p></abstract>

An agent achieves its goals by interacting with its environment, cyclically choosing and executing suitable actions. An action execution process is a reasonable and critical part of an entire cognitive architecture, because the process of generating executable motor commands is not only driven by low-level environmental information, but is also initiated and affected by the agent’s high-level mental processes. This review focuses on cognitive models of action, or more specifically, of the action execution process, as implemented in a set of popular cognitive architectures. We examine the representations and procedures inside the action execution process, as well as the cooperation between action execution and other high-level cognitive modules. We finally conclude with some general observations regarding the nature of action execution.

The Action Execution Process Implemented in Different Cognitive Architectures: A Review

Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, Memphis TN 38152, USA

Journal of Artificial General Intelligence

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An agent achieves its goals by interacting with its environment, cyclically choosing and executing suitable actions. An action execution process is a...

The Action Execution Process Implemented in Different Cognitive Architectures: A Review

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 49 - 68

Accepted: Nov 30, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jagi-2014-0002

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