Publication - Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control

Authors:	Vincent, Regis, Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor and Wagner, Thomas
Title:	Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control
Abstract:	Real-time control has become increasingly important as technologies are moved from the lab into real world situations or physical simulations. The complexity associated with these systems increases as control and autonomy are distributed, due to such issues as precedence constraints, shared resources, and the lack of a complete and consistent world view. In this paper we describe a real-time environment requiring distributed control, and how we modified our existing multi-agent technologies to meet this need. Two types of enhancements are covered: those which enable planning to meet real-time constraints, such as our task representation, meta-level costing, alternative plan selection, and partial-order scheduling, and those which facilitate on-line real-time control, including scheduling flexibility, caching, and windowed commitments.
Keywords:	Coordination, DTC, Scheduling
Publication:	Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 355 - 362
Location:	Montreal
Publisher:	ACM Press
Date:	June 2001
Sources:	PS: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~bhorling/papers/00-48.ps.gz HTML: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~bhorling/papers/00-48/ PDF: /Documents/00-48.pdf
Reference:	Vincent, Regis, Horling, Bryan, Lesser, Victor and Wagner, Thomas. Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 355-362. June 2001.
`bibtex`:	@article{Vincent-198, author = "Regis Vincent and Bryan Horling and Victor Lesser and Thomas Wagner", title = "{Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control}", journal = "Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents", publisher = "ACM Press", pages = "355-362", month = "June", year = "2001", address = "Montreal", url = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/198", }