Scalability of Adaptive Intelligent Systems Architectures

Since an AIS does try to guarantee speed-knowledge independence, there is reason to believe it would be highly scalable. And, in fact, the AIS staff's investigations have borne this out. However, the current implementation on LISP machines with limited memory have not operated continuously for more than two hours, showing noticeable performance degradation even before the end of these simulations. It remains to be seen whether this is an implementational consideration or a fundamental flaw in the architecture. The satisficing cycle does provide a great deal of scalability, in its maintenance of the reasoning process within the real-time constraints for guaranteed latencies, time-stress responsivity, graceful degradation, and speed-knowledge independence.

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