SOAR
<p>Aug 07, 2011 12:11 PM  SOAR  originally stood for  State, Operator, and Result.
soar was orig spelled SOAR in all caps as an acronym... now it is spelled Soar (even tho the core concept is the same)
 
SOAR created by John Laird, Allen Newell and Paul Rosenblum  at CMU and
maintained by John Laird's group at U of Mich.
 
Symbolic system is essential for general intelligence.
 
Soar is based on Allen Newell's book:  Unified Theories of Cognition.
 
While symbol processing remains the core mechanism in the architecture, recent versions of the theory incorporate non-symbolic representations and processes, including <a title="Reinforcement learning" href="/wiki/Reinforcement_learning">reinforcement learning</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Mental imagery" href="/wiki/Mental_imagery">imagery</a> processing, and <a title="Emotion" href="/wiki/Emotion">emotion</a> modeling (Laird, 2008).
 
 
 
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