Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Using reactive multi-agent systems in simulation and problem solving
Distributed artificial intelligence
PAC-personality and cognition: an interactive system for modeling agent scenarios
IJCAI'97 Proceedings of the Fifteenth international joint conference on Artifical intelligence - Volume 2
Decision-making in an embedded reasoning system
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Commitment and effectiveness of situated agents
IJCAI'91 Proceedings of the 12th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
A systematic review of software robustness
Information and Software Technology
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This paper compares a behaviour based architecture, and a plan based architecture for agents in multi-agent systems, with respect to the issue of robustness. The type of robustness investigated is stability of the systems as two aspects - unpredictability and rate of perception compared to speed of the environment - are modified. The comparison is done using a simulation scenario which was designed to be constrained, but to capture important qualities of the real world. The scenario was also chosen to have characteristics that could be favourable to both behaviour based and plan based paradigms. An analysis of the data collected for the two approaches provides strongly suggestive evidence that the planbased system is more robust than the behaviour based one in some ways. There is no indication of better robustness in the behaviour based system with respect to the aspects of robustness investigated.