The APOC Framework for the Comparison of Agent Architectures
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In this paper, we present APOC, an agent architecture framework intended for the analysis, comparison, and evaluation of agent architectures. We demonstrate how four main architectures, GRL, ICARUS, PRODIGY, and SOAR can be translated into APOC and briefly discuss how these translations could be used to compare architectures and possibly integrate features from these different architectures within one common archi-
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