Publication - Efficient Meta-Level Control in Bounded Rational Agents

Authors: Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor
Title: Efficient Meta-Level Control in Bounded Rational Agents
Abstract: Complex agents operating in open environments must make real-time control decisions on scheduling and planning of domain actions. These decisions are made in the context of limited resources and uncertainty about outcomes of actions. The question of how to sequence domain and control actions without consuming too many resources in the process is the meta-level control problem for a resource-bounded rational agent. Our approach is to design and build a meta-level control agent architecture with bounded computational overhead. It supports decisions on when to accept, delay or reject a new task, how much effort to put into scheduling when reasoning about a new task and whether to reschedule when actual execution performance deviates from expected performance. We show that efficient meta-level control leads to significant improvement in performance and provide empirical results to support our claim.
Keywords: Agent Control, Resource Bounded, Uncertainty
Publication: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 1104 - 1105
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: ACM Press
Date: July 2003
Sources: PS: /Documents/araja/SingleAgent.ps
PS: /Documents/araja/AAMAS03.ps
PDF: /Documents/AAMAS03.pdf
Notes: Extended abstract, full version in UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2002-051
Reference: Raja, Anita; Lesser, Victor. Efficient Meta-Level Control in Bounded Rational Agents. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, ACM Press, pp. 1104-1105. July 2003. Extended abstract, full version in UMass Computer Science Technical Report 2002-051
bibtex: 
@article{Raja-237,
  author    = "Anita Raja and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Efficient Meta-Level Control in Bounded Rational
               Agents}",
  journal   = "Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on
               Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems",
  publisher = "ACM Press",
  pages     = "1104-1105",
  month     = "July",
  year      = "2003",
  address   = "Melbourne, Australia",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/237",
}