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 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, metal-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.
Publication: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 355 - 362
Location: Montreal
Publisher: ACM Press
Date: 2001
Sources: PDF: /Documents/vincent01implementing.pdf
Notes: Recieved Honorable Mention in FIPA Software Prototypes Track Demonstration Competition
Reference: Vincent, Regis; Horling, Bryan; Lesser, Victor; and Wagner, Thomas. Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 355-362. 2001. Recieved Honorable Mention in FIPA Software Prototypes Track Demonstration Competition
bibtex: 
@inproceedings{Vincent-282,
  author    = "Regis Vincent and Bryan Horling and Victor Lesser
               and Thomas Wagner",
  title     = "{Implementing Soft Real-Time Agent Control}",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference
               on Autonomous Agents",
  publisher = "ACM Press",
  pages     = "355-362",
  year      = "2001",
  address   = "Montreal",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/282",
}