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[Gustavo Machado Campagnani Gama <gama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joel,

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:21 +1200, Joel Pitt wrote:
> There is already a forgetting mechanism through the use of the
> ForgettingAgent in dynamics/attention/ForgettingAgent.[ch] - which, if
> it isn't sufficient for your needs already, should probably be
> extended instead of introducing new forgetting systems (unless using a
> significantly different forgetting method).
> 
> The forgetting method should also generally be based on the LTI, not
> the STI, of an atom.
> 
> The ImportanceUpdatingAgent is meant to be used for updating the
> STI/LTI of atom. Why is a separate STIDecayingAgent necessary? If the
> ImportanceUpdatingAgent is insufficient I can try to incorporate the
> decay process (and make it optional when strict economic attention
> allocation is required).

I'm afraid this is something you'll have to discuss with Cassio (and
Ben?). All I've been tasked with is to port Elvys' forgetting mechanism
from the Petaverse tree (and yes, I did point it out to Cassio that you
had already commited code dealing with importance spreading and
updating, but he said that opencog should have both features).

--
Gustavo