Hardware or software architecture adapted to develop conditioned reflexes

摘要

An architecture, which may be embodied in hardware, software or a combination of the two, is adapted to develop reflexes conditioned based on influences external to the architecture (such as user activity) in order to optimise the fulfilment of operational requirements of application modules (10) in the architecture. The architecture includes, in addition to one or more application modules (10), modulation modules (20) involved in the regulation of the functions performed by the application modules, a central regulator (5) for registering the existence of an unsatisfied operational requirement in an application module (10) and for controlling the modulation modules (20) to seek a solution by a strategy including the manifestation (a) of the "need" condition externally to the architecture via output modules (30) and this manifestation is detected by the architecture itself via input modules (40), which also detect external phenomena indicating the activity of a user or external agent. An external event or input (c) leads to satisfaction of the operational requirement. A conditioning system (8) receiving inputs from the application modules (10), modulation modules (20), central regulator (5), input and output modules (30,40) generates, on the basis of conditioning received through past experience, a signal (ε) indicating the expectation of satisfaction of the operational requirement. The operation of the architecture responds to the value of this expectation signal.