An architecture for a rational agent must allow for means-end reasoning, for the weighing of competing alternatives, and for interactions betwen these two forms of reasoning. Such an architecture must also address the problem of resource boundedness. We sketch a solution of the first problem that points the way to a solution of the second. In particular, we present a high-level specification of the practical-reasoning component of an architecture for a resource-bounded rational agent. In this architecture, a major role of the agent's plans is to constrain the amount of further practical reasoning she must perform.L'architecture d'un agent rationnel doit permettre le raisonnement procidant des fins aux moyens, le choix entre diffkrentes actions possibles, et I'interaction entre ces deux modes de raisonnement. Elle doit aussi tenir compte des consiquences des limites de ressources disponibles. Nous esquissons ici une solution au premier problhe qui indique comment on pounait risoudre le second. Nous proposons, en particulier, une spicification abstraite d'un module de gineration de plans pour un agent rationnel dont les ressources sont bornies. Dans cette architecture, le r6le principal des plans d'un agent est de limiter les ressources devant &tre consacris au raisonnement.
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