[FRIAM] More on levels of sequence organization

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I remember skimming that paper before. The interesting question is the strictness (or "looseness") of the hierarchy. Figure 2 implies (eg "Verify") the ability to hop over entire levels. So the question boils down to whether or not it's really a hierarchy or something else, something like the subset of a power set of the primitives. I'm loosely analogizing with Koza's automatically defined functions (ADFs) where the operators can work over both the primitives and the "macros".

On 5/2/19 6:36 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> I tried to copy this mail that had the file attached:
> 
> We used the  Hearsay-II extensively as a model for how to do parallel,
> distributed applications in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon.  It
> makes use of levels and communication among them, up, down and within a
> level.  Applications included factory automation, job shop scheduling, and
> others.  As a speech-understanding system it was replaced by Harpy which
> was faster.
> 
> Some will remember several other times that I have promoted this.  I'm just
> trying to help.