U. of Nottingham Soar Web Site

Soar is a production system often used in writing artificial intelligence (AI) programs, but it is also often used for cognitive modelling.

This page is a central pointer for the U. of Nottingham Soar web pages, including our mirrors of the US archives.

• Mirror of the program distributions at CMU. It is updated nightly at 04:13 BST. You can also use anonymous ftp through ftp.nottingham.ac.uk: /pub/soar/cmu-mirror
• The real thing: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/soar/www/soar-archive-software.html.
• We will have a mirror of the USC/ISI Soar archive. It is now updated nightly.
• The real USC/ISI web page: http://www.isi.edu/soar/soar-archive-homepage.html
• The U. of Michigan Soar group web page http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/soar-um.html

Thre are several more Soar related things here:

• the Psychological Soar Tutorial http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/pst/pst-tutorial.html,
• The Soar Frequently asked questions (FAQ) (and answers) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pub/soar/nottingham/soar-faq.html. This is mirrored at the U. of Michigan.
• The Soar Less FAQ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pub/soar/nottingham/soar-lfaq.html. This is the less frequently asked questions, and is not mirrored at the U. of Michigan.
• An exemplar model including general and specific graphic displays. By Gordon Baxter and Frank Ritter, with some contributions from Randy Jones and Karl Schwamb.
  Able-Soar, III, the code for Soar 7.0.2.
  Able-Soar, III, the code for Soar 7.0.4, and slightly improved.
  Able-Soar, III, all the versions, including recent updates.
• Able-Soar, III, the tech report
• A revised and extended version is available as Ritter, F. E., Jones, R. M., & Baxter, G. D. (1999). Reusable models and graphical interfaces: Realising the potential of a unified theory of cognition. In U. Schmid, J. Krems, & F. Wysotzki (Eds.), Mind modeling -- A cognitive science approach to reasoning, learning and discovery. 83-109. Lengerich: Pabst Scientific Publishing. (The book is interesting too).
• A really, very, small, illustrative example of using Able.
• The Tcl/Tk Soar Interface (various versions)
• Student projects that are useful and reusable (at least 5 included here). Including (1) Models of the tower of hanoi, (2) Preliminary model of the prisoner's dilemma and graphic displays, (3) Extensions to analogy (that could and should be folded back in en masse), (4) Work with EPAM and automatic modelling, and (5) noun number learning.
• Other, miscellaneous papers, including notes on using Tcl/Tk, Rieman's intro to Soar, and an explanation of the NN PSCM.
• How this mirror was set up.
• Go to the password protected Able paper (requires password)

If you have any questions, please email me -- Frank Ritter, 10 August 1998.