Different from other cognitive architectures like SOAR or ACT-R, DIARC is an intrinsically component-based distributed architecture scheme that can be instantiated in many different ways. Moreover, DIARC has several distinguishing features, such as affect processing and deep natural language integration, is open-world and multi-agent enabled, and allows for “one-shot instruction-based learning” of new percepts, actions, concepts, rules, and norms.
@incollection{scheutzetal2018diarcchapter,
title={An Overview of the Distributed Integrated Affect and Reflection Cognitive DIARC Architecture},
author={Matthias Scheutz and Thomas Williams and Evan Krause and Brley Oosterveld and Vasanth Sarathy and Tyler Frasca},
year={2019},
booktitle={Cognitive Architectures},
publisher={Springer International Publishing},
series={Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/scheutzetal2018diarcchapter.pdf}
}