Publication - Ensuring Robust Agent Control in Uncertain Environments.

Authors:	Raja, Anita, Wagner, Thomas, Lesser, Victor
Title:	Ensuring Robust Agent Control in Uncertain Environments.
Abstract:	Agent control involves reasoning about local problem solving activities interacting with other agents planning for a course of action and contingencies in the event of failure of the action and finally carrying out the actions with limited resources and uncertainty about agent outcomes and the actions of other agents. The growing complexity and dynamics of agents and the environments in which they interact requires robust agent control where the chance of complete failure of an agents plan to achieve the high-level goal is minimized Design-to-Criteria is a soft real time agent control process where schedules are built to meet dynamic client goal criteria including real-time deadlines using a task model that describes alternate ways to achieve tasks and subtasks. In this paper we describe a post scheduling contingency analysis process that can be employed in deadline critical situations where the added computational cost is worth the expense. We describe the uncertainty representation and how it improves task models and the scheduling process and provide empirical examples to show how robustness is built into agent control.
Keywords:	Contingency
Publication:	University of Massachusetts Computer Science TR-99-027
Date:	1999
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Reference:	Raja, Anita, Wagner, Thomas, Lesser, Victor. Ensuring Robust Agent Control in Uncertain Environments.. University of Massachusetts Computer Science TR-99-027. 1999.
`bibtex`:	@article{Raja-135, author = "Anita Raja and Thomas Wagner and Victor Lesser", title = "{Ensuring Robust Agent Control in Uncertain Environments.}", journal = "University of Massachusetts Computer Science TR-99-027", year = "1999", url = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/135", }