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This paper compares a behaviour based architecture, and a plan based architecture for agents in multi-agent systems, with respect to the issue of robustness. The type of robustness investigated is stability of the systems as two aspects - unpredictability and rate of perception compared to speed of the environment - are modified. The comparison is done using a simulation scenario which was designed to be constrained, but to capture important qualities of the real world. The scenario was also chosen to have characteristics that could be favourable to both behaviour based and plan based paradigms. An analysis of the data collected for the two approaches provides strongly suggestive evidence that the planbased system is more robust than the behaviour based one in some ways. There is no indication of better robustness in the behaviour based system with respect to the aspects of robustness investigated.
This was due to lack of sufficient data and hardware problems which made it impos- sible to collect further data.
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Kashmirian, J., Padgham, L. (2000). Relative Robustness: An Empirical Investigation of Behaviour Based and Plan Based Paradigms as Environmental Conditions Change. In: Raś, Z.W., Ohsuga, S. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1932. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39963-1_22
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