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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