Multi-step Lookahead Under Moderate Urgency

Investigate multi-step lookahead in the Triadic Cognitive Architecture for environments with lower temporal urgency (for example, the Network Security Triage Grid with β=0.30), and determine whether the continuation value becomes non-zero and how this affects the optimal stopping boundary and action selection.

Background

Section 4.8 shows that in the Emergency Medical Diagnostic Grid (a high-urgency regime) the continuation value is identically zero across trajectories, making the myopic stopping rule exactly optimal. The authors hypothesize that in lower-urgency regimes the continuation value may be non-zero, which would change the stopping behavior.

They explicitly leave a systematic investigation of multi-step lookahead in such moderate-urgency settings as future work, indicating uncertainty about the presence and impact of continuation value when temporal urgency is reduced.