Strategic Control of Reactive Behavior in Intelligent Agents

Citation: Barbara Hayes-Roth and Lee Brownston and Anne Collinot. (1993) Strategic Control of Reactive Behavior in Intelligent Agents. In KSL-93-18, February,1993.

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author	Barbara Hayes-Roth and Lee Brownston and Anne Collinot
title	Strategic Control of Reactive Behavior in Intelligent Agents
number	KSL-93-18
institution	Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory
year	1993
month	February
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abstract	An intelligent agent must often choose among several competing actions. To act effectively in real time, it must both generate strategic plans and respond to external events. Construction plans completely in advance lacks flexibility, while purely reactive systems can lack generality. We present an algorithm which dynamically constructs a control plan and yet uses this plan in a reactive fashion when response time is critical. This Satisficing algorithm uses the control plan to process both events and known actions in a most-promising-first order, terminating its search whenever it has either encountered a potential action that exceeds a declared threshold, reached a temporal deadline, or exhausted all known actions, whichever comes first. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate that the satisficing algorithm has the expected and desired characteristics.

KSL Technical Report ID: KSL-93-18

Abstract	An intelligent agent must often choose amo … An intelligent agent must often choose among several competing actions. To act effectively in real time, it must both generate strategic plans and respond to external events. Construction plans completely in advance lacks flexibility, while purely reactive systems can lack generality. We present an algorithm which dynamically constructs a control plan and yet uses this plan in a reactive fashion when response time is critical. This Satisficing algorithm uses the control plan to process both events and known actions in a most-promising-first order, terminating its search whenever it has either encountered a potential action that exceeds a declared threshold, reached a temporal deadline, or exhausted all known actions, whichever comes first. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate that the satisficing algorithm has the expected and desired characteristics. the expected and desired characteristics.
Author	Barbara Hayes-Roth and Lee Brownston and Anne Collinot +
Bibtype	techreport +
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Has identifier	KSL-93-18 +
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Has title	Strategic Control of Reactive Behavior in Intelligent Agents +
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Has year	1993 +
Institution	Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory +
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Month	February +
Number	KSL-93-18 +
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Title	Strategic Control of Reactive Behavior in Intelligent Agents +
Year	1993 +