The parallel terraced scan is a multi-agent based search technique that is basic to

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s, such as

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, Letter-string, the Examiner, Tabletop, and others. It was developed by

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and

Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, an ...

at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at

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, Bloomington. The parallel terraced scan builds on the concepts of the workspace, coderack, conceptual memory, and temperature. According to Hofstadter the

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and

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nature of the processing captures aspects of human

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The Parallel Terraced Scan: An Optimization For An Agent-Oriented Architecture
(pdf) {{compu-AI-stub Cognitive architecture Theory of computation

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