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REACTIVITY

Reactivity refers to the architecture's ability to handle, in a timely manner, unexpected events. To do this the architecture must continually, or nearly so, monitor the environment to determine if any new event has transpired to which it must react. If such an event did transpire the architecture must then react in the appropiate way and in a timely fashion. There is a tradeoff between speed and the quality of the chosen solution. The architecture must be able to make this tradeoff in a rational manner.

Architectures that provide reactivity.