Aim: to provide agents with human-like cognitive skills such as memory, perception, natural language, learning.
Related work
Norling and Ritter, 2004 propose CoJack? as an agent-based architecture.
High-Level Behaviour-Representation Languages and Agent Programming Languages
Various high-level behaviour representation languages have been proposed that abstract from the details of some of the cognitive modeling programming languages for existing architectures such as Soar and ACT-R. Examples of such languages include the High Level Symbolic Representation (HLSR) language and Herbal.
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The Utrecht University Goallab studies goals in the context of social psychology.