ACT-R 7.21+ Reference Manual Dan Bothell Includes material adapted from the ACT-R 4.0 manual by Christian Lebiere, documentation on the perceptual motor components by Mike Byrne and the Introduction is a shortened version of the ACT- R description written by Raluca Budiu for the ACT-R web site. Notice The purpose of this document is to describe the current software. It does not generally describe the differences from prior versions, but in places where such changes are significant some additional information may be provided. 2 Table of Contents Notice......................................................................................................................................................2 Table of Contents....................................................................................................................................3 Preface...................................................................................................................................................18 Introduction...........................................................................................................................................19 Document Overview.............................................................................................................................21 General Software Description...............................................................................................................22 Licensing...........................................................................................................................................23 Case sensitivity.................................................................................................................................23 Functions vs. Macros........................................................................................................................23 Compatibility issues..........................................................................................................................24 Notations in the Documentation...........................................................................................................25 Commands........................................................................................................................................25 Signals...............................................................................................................................................25 Command Syntax..............................................................................................................................25 Generalized Boolean.........................................................................................................................26 Command Identifier..........................................................................................................................26 Name.................................................................................................................................................26 Remote commands............................................................................................................................27 Embedded Strings.........................................................................................................................27 Transmission Protocol...................................................................................................................27 Examples...........................................................................................................................................28 ACT-R Software Distribution...............................................................................................................29 Distribution Contents............................................................................................................................30 Subdirectories....................................................................................................................................30 commands.....................................................................................................................................30 core-modules.................................................................................................................................30 dev-tools........................................................................................................................................30 devices...........................................................................................................................................30 docs...............................................................................................................................................31 environment..................................................................................................................................32 examples.......................................................................................................................................32 extras.............................................................................................................................................32 framework.....................................................................................................................................32 modules.........................................................................................................................................32 other-files......................................................................................................................................33 support...........................................................................................................................................33 test-models....................................................................................................................................33 tools...............................................................................................................................................33 tutorial...........................................................................................................................................33 user-loads......................................................................................................................................33 Loading and Running the ACT-R System.............................................................................................34 Single-threaded mode.......................................................................................................................34 ACT-R version details.......................................................................................................................34 Component and Module versions.....................................................................................................35 User Load files..................................................................................................................................36 Compiler Optimizations....................................................................................................................36 3 Logical Host......................................................................................................................................37 actr-load........................................................................................................................................37 load-act-r-model/load-act-r-code..................................................................................................38 Load order.........................................................................................................................................39 Recompiling......................................................................................................................................40 Packaging..........................................................................................................................................40 Clean.............................................................................................................................................41 Packaged.......................................................................................................................................41 Requiring files...................................................................................................................................41 require-compiled...........................................................................................................................41 Overall Software Design...................................................................................................................43 Model files............................................................................................................................................45 ACT-R Output.......................................................................................................................................47 Commands & Signals........................................................................................................................47 general-trace..................................................................................................................................47 model-trace...................................................................................................................................47