Growing Agents–An Investigation of Architectural Mechanisms for the Specification of “Developing” Agent Architectures

In this paper we investigate various aspects of "developing agent architectures", i.e., architectures that change over time according to their specification, in the framework architecture APOC. After a brief overview of APOC, we examine and discuss several ways of specifying developing architectures, and present examples of definitions of such architectures in APOC (e.g., Grossberg’s ART networks). We conclude with a brief discussion of the advantages of being able to specify developing architectures within an architecture framework at the level of the architecture itself.