Equation 2 · Part 1 · From Scripted Bots to Autonomous Agents: A History of AI Agent Architecture
Symbol a
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a is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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a is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The planner underneath Shakey was STRIPS — the Stanford Research Institute Problem Solver — described by Fikes and Nilsson in a 1971 paper in the journal Artificial Intelligence . STRIPS represented the world as a set of predicate-logic statements, represented each available action as an operator with a precondition list, a delete list, and an add list, and used a resolution theorem prover guided by means-ends analysis to…
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