Some more notes on cognitive infrastructures: IKAROS (http://www.lucs.lu.se/IKAROS/index.html) IKAROS components correspond to brain areas, which are linked to each other through arrays of real variables that represent neurons. IKAROS is focused on representing the human brain accurately at a low level, and duplicating specific brain regions and functions, purely for research. It has a specified level of detail, as does an architecture, but is an infrastructure rather than an architecture in that the user can specify how the components are connected.
BrainStorm/J was an attempt at the Universidad Nacional del Centro in Argentina to build re-usable Java components for intelligent systems. The major product of BrainStorm has been JavaLog, an open-source Java implementation of Prolog suitable for use in a multithreaded Java application. The project focuses on belief-desire-intention (BDI) planning architectures. ABLE is an ongoing effort by the IBM Research Labs to produce a library of low-level artificial intelligence components (neural networks, function optimizers, logic engines, finite-state automata, and so on) that communicate using a standard API. ABLE is thorough and well-tested. Its API is meant only for components that reside in the same thread on the same machine, and each component performs a specific computational task rather than a specific cognitive function. ABLE is hampered by an overly-restrictive licensing agreement that allows only 90 days of use. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303