@InProceedings{hawesetal07eai,
  author = {Nick Hawes and Aaron Sloman and Jeremy Wyatt},
  title = {Towards an Empirical Exploration of Design Space},
  year = 2007,
  booktitle = {Proc.\ of the 2007 AAAI Workshop on Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence},
  address = {Vancouver, Canada},
  url = {http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~nah/bibtex/papers/hawesetal07eai.pdf},
  note = {To appear},
  abstract = {In this paper we propose an empirical method for the
              comparison of architectures designed to produce similar
              behaviour from an intelligent system. The approach is
              based on the exploration of \emph{design space} using
              similar designs that all satisfy the same requirements
              in \emph{niche space}. An example of a possible
              application of this method is given using a robotic
              system that has been implemented using a software
              toolkit that has been designed to support architectural
              experimentation.}, 
}