How does Soar 7 differ from Soar 6?
(T6-1) Question from Monica Weiland [monica_weiland@chiinc.com] Basically, the Soar kernel architecture in Soar 7 is the same as what is in Soar 6, with additional bug fixes, and changes to the timers to be more accurate and informative when the ‘stats’ cmd is issued. There were also changes to using multiple agents and the NNPSCM is the only PSCM model supported (in 6, both NNPSCM (no explicit problem space slot) and the PSCM (explicit problem space slot) were supported). The advantages of Soar7 include all the user extensions that can be done by using Tcl for the user interface. In the Soar distribution there is a tool for converting from Soar 6 format productions to Soar 7. It was written by Doug Pearson and it’s called convert (written in C). I don’t know if it is included in the Mac distribution, but I would assume it is. It does a good job of converting productions; most applications run after being processed by this routine. If Monica has the SimTime productions, she should be a
