Deadline Management in Intelligent Agents

Citation: Philippe Lalanda and Barbara Hayes-Roth. (1994) Deadline Management in Intelligent Agents. In KSL-94-27, May,1994.

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author	Philippe Lalanda and Barbara Hayes-Roth
title	Deadline Management in Intelligent Agents
number	KSL-94-27
institution	Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory
year	1994
month	May
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abstract	This paper describes an approach to reasoning about goals with deadlines in an intelligent agent. The presented approach builds on the model of dynamic control where control plans describing the desirable behavior of an agent are dynamically constructed and used by meta-control decisions to choose the best behavior of the agent at each point in time. We extend this model by introducing scheduling behaviors that construct a control schedule of tasks required for time constrained goals, and by changing the meta-control decision criterion to consider both the current control plan and the current control schedule when deciding which behaviors to execute. We also present in this paper demonstrations and experimental results in the domain of office robots showing that our approach keeps the control cost low, and brings more run-time flexibility than current approaches.

KSL Technical Report ID: KSL-94-27

Abstract	This paper describes an approach to reason … This paper describes an approach to reasoning about goals with deadlines in an intelligent agent. The presented approach builds on the model of dynamic control where control plans describing the desirable behavior of an agent are dynamically constructed and used by meta-control decisions to choose the best behavior of the agent at each point in time. We extend this model by introducing scheduling behaviors that construct a control schedule of tasks required for time constrained goals, and by changing the meta-control decision criterion to consider both the current control plan and the current control schedule when deciding which behaviors to execute. We also present in this paper demonstrations and experimental results in the domain of office robots showing that our approach keeps the control cost low, and brings more run-time flexibility than current approaches. -time flexibility than current approaches.
Author	Philippe Lalanda and Barbara Hayes-Roth +
Bibtype	techreport +
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Has title	Deadline Management in Intelligent Agents +
Has where published	KSL-94-27 +
Has year	1994 +
Institution	Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory +
Ksl tr id	KSL-94-27 +
Month	May +
Number	KSL-94-27 +
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Title	Deadline Management in Intelligent Agents +
Year	1994 +