The ability to reason in real-time is the ability to sense environment and create the adequate response to it. It is important in dynamic, imperfect sensor information.
A common approach is to use dedicated reactive modules (e.g. Atlantis), or to use a reasoning mechanism whose thought is quantized in small enough pieces as to be (almost) any-time interruptable (e.g. SOAR).
The less time there is to reason, the worst the results. Given that, systems that can somehow react to a dynamic environment are listed below.
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