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Attention Allocation is an OpenCog subsystem meant to control the application of processing and memory resources to specific tasks.
The main project site is at http://opencog.org
Currently implemented: Economic Attention Allocation (ECAN).
For platform dependent instruction on dependencies and building the code, as well as other options for setting up development environments, more details are found on the Building Opencog wiki.
To build and run the Attention Allocation subsystem,
the packages listed below are required.
With a few exceptions, most Linux distributions will provide these
packages. Users of Ubuntu may use the dependency
installer at /scripts/octool. Users of any version of Linux may
use the Dockerfile to quickly build a container in which OpenCog will
be built and run.
Common OpenCog C++ utilities http://github.com/opencog/cogutil It uses exactly the same build procedure as this package. Be sure to
sudo make installat the end.
OpenCog Atomspace database and reasoning engine http://github.com/opencog/atomspace It uses exactly the same build procedure as this package. Be sure to
sudo make installat the end.
OpenCog CogServer Network Server. http://github.com/opencog/cogserver It uses exactly the same build procedure as this package. Be sure to
sudo make installat the end.
Perform the following steps at the shell prompt:
cd to project root dir
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
Libraries will be built into subdirectories within build, mirroring the structure of the source directory root.
To build and run the unit tests, from the ./build directory enter
(after building opencog as above):
make test
Some useful CMake's web sites/pages:
- http://www.cmake.org (main page)
- http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables
- http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables/Get_Variables_From_CMake_Dashboards
- http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMakeMacroAddCxxTest
- http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_HowToFindInstalledSoftware
The main CMakeLists.txt currently sets -DNDEBUG. This disables Boost matrix/vector debugging code and safety checks, with the benefit of making it much faster. Boost sparse matrixes and (dense) vectors are currently used by ECAN's ImportanceDiffusionAgent. If you use Boost ublas in other code, it may be a good idea to at least temporarily unset NDEBUG. Also if the Boost assert.h is used it will be necessary to unset NDEBUG. Boost ublas is intended to respond to a specific BOOST_UBLAS_NDEBUG, however this is not available as of the current Ubuntu standard version (1.34).
-Wno-deprecated is currently enabled by default to avoid a number of warnings regarding hash_map being deprecated (because the alternative is still experimental!)