Limited Response Time

An agent rarely has an unbounded amount of time to take actions in response to an environmental event. This limits the amount of processing required before taking an action, and usually also limits the amount of knowledge brought to bear. As a result, many architectures turn to either interruptible processing or situated action. However, the agent must still act as rationally as possible, given the time allowed, according to some bounded rationality constraint.

Architectures which address limited response time include:


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