Real-time Performance

Agents acting in the world require real-time performance at least some of the time. Real-time performance is the taking of immediate action upon receipt of some event. Successful implementation often requires precise knowledge of the duration of tasks which can mean that things cannot be interrupted, even by the overseer.

The only architecture that attempts to deal at that level of the issue is the Brooksian architecture, but many architectures grapple with the problem of interruptability of deliberative problems in order to service some scenario requiring immediate response:


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