Deliberative server for real-time agents

Abstract

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.