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Deliberative Server for Real-Time Agents

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III (CEEMAS 2003)

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Over the last few years more complex and flexible techniques have been needed to develop hard real-time systems. The agent paradigm seems to be an appropriate approach to be applied in this area. ARTIS is an agent architecture suitable for hard real-time agents. This paper is focused on an extension of the control module of ARTIS agents that provides a soft real-time control architecture inside of a hard real-time agent. This extension incorporates a deliberative component that allows to change the control module policy depending on the data environment and the reactivity degree of the agent.

Work funded by grant number TAP98-0333-C03-01 of the Spanish government.

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  1. Dept. Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Carlos Carrascosa, Miguel Rebollo, Vicente Julián & Vicente Botti

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Carrascosa, C., Rebollo, M., Julián, V., Botti, V. (2003). Deliberative Server for Real-Time Agents. In: Mařík, V., Pěchouček, M., Müller, J. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III. CEEMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45023-8_47

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