Towards Modelling Real Time Constraints

Amir Ashamalla, Ghassan Beydoun, Graham Low, Jun Yan

2012

Abstract

Software agents are highly autonomous, situated and interactive software components. They autonomously sense their environment and respond accordingly. Agents behaviours are often constrained by by real time constraints such as the time in which the agent is expected to respond .i.e. time needed for a task to complete. Failing to meet such a constraint can result in a task being not achieved. This possibly causes an agent or a system to fail, depending on how critical the task is to the agent or system as a whole. Our research aims at identifying and modelling real time constraints in the early phase of analysis which helps in creating a more reliable and robust system.

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Ashamalla A., Beydoun G., Low G. and Yan J. (2012). Towards Modelling Real Time Constraints . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 158-164. DOI: 10.5220/0004064801580164


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@conference{icsoft12,
author={Amir Ashamalla and Ghassan Beydoun and Graham Low and Jun Yan},
title={Towards Modelling Real Time Constraints},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={158-164},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004064801580164},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Towards Modelling Real Time Constraints
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Ashamalla A.
AU - Beydoun G.
AU - Low G.
AU - Yan J.
PY - 2012
SP - 158
EP - 164
DO - 10.5220/0004064801580164