On Augmenting Reactivity with Deliberation in a Controlled Manner

  • Authors:
  • Jacek Malec

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems, From RoboCup to Real-World Applications (selected papers from the ECAI 2000 Workshop and additional contributions)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We argue that a reactive agent obeying the requirement of predictability imposed by a hard-real-time application domain cannot be equipped with an arbitrarily powerful deliberation capability as this would jeopardize the predictability of the agent's behaviour. Therefore such augmentation should be performed in a principled, controlled manner. We illustrate our line of thought with the example of Generic Layered Architecture used for creating reactive agents acting in dynamic environments requiring real-time responsiveness.