CIS 479 Assignment 4
                        Winter 1999

     Your final assignment will be to use the Soar intelligence 
architecture to create an intelligent agent. In this assignment 
you are to design and implement a new Eater or a new Tank, then 
evaluate its performance. You may work with a partner if you 
wish. If you work in a partner each person is to be assigned a 
percentage grade (indicating the contribution to total project by 
each partner).

	To begin your work you need to go to the CIS 479 course page
http:///www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis479.html.  
Download the following files: Soar Tutorial Part 1 (MS Word), 
Soar Tutorial Part 2 (MS Word), Eaters Win32, and Tank-Soar 
Win32. You may wish to download the Soar 8 Manual (pdf). You will 
need to work through both parts of the Soar tutorial.

	You should decide whether you want to build a new Eater or a 
new Tank. You should then implement your agent and run it against 
each of the agents in the appropriate tutorial. You will then 
need to write a short report describing the differences between 
your agent and each of the tutorial agents (both logic and 
performance).

     You will need to turn in an annotated file listing of your 
agent code, report, and test run results. You also need to turn 
in whatever hardcopy you are able to generate documenting the 
results of your test data runs. Your work is due at our final 
exam class period on Wednesday, April 21st. No late work will be 
accepted after April 22nd.


Date assigned: 3/29/99
Date due:      4/22/99