Some Terms, Concepts and Questions
Instruction
Vocabulary
 Actions
What is the relation between the Agent and the Instructions?
Finite State Machine, FSM
Turing Machine, TM
Action {R}
Actions {R, L, W}, infinite tape
How do these machines differ?
 British Museum Algorithm Resources required?
 Generate and Test
 Generators
 Start State, Test
 Control Structure
 State Space Search
Exhaustive
 Breadth-First
 Depth-First
Heuristic Search
 Hill-Climbing
 
 Resources required?
Problem Reduction
(Means-Ends Analysis)
 Non-Terminal Rule
 Terminal Rule
How is the AND/OR Search Space Defined?
Production System
Recognition - Act System
Production Rule
Left Hand (Condition) Side (LHS)
Right Hand (Action) Side (RHS)
Working Memory
Long Term Memory
Conflict Resolution
 How is control realized?

Computational Approach
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