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title: "Modularity and Design in Reactive Intelligence"
authors:
  - "Joanna Bryson"
  - "Lynn Andrea Stein"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/148"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/0148.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2001
pages: "1115-1119"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Modularity and Design in Reactive Intelligence

Joanna Bryson, Lynn Andrea Stein

*Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1115-1119.

## Abstract

Software design is the hardest part of creating intelligent agents. Therefore agent architectures should be optimized as design tools. This paper presents an architectural synthesis between the three-layer architectures which dominate autonomous robotics and virtual reality, and a more agent-oriented approach to viewing behavior modules. We provide an approach, Behavior Oriented Design (BOD), for rapid, maintainable development. We demonstrate our approach by modeling primate learning.