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David John Musliner. James Hendler. Ashok K. Agrawala. Edmund H. Durfee. Jay K. Strosnider. C. J. Paul. June 1994.
The Challenges of Real-Time AI. The research agendas of two major areas of computer science are converging: Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods are moving towards more realistic domains requiring real-time responses, and real-time systems are moving towards more complex applications requiring intelligent behavior. Together, they meet at the crossroads of interest in "real-time intelligent control," or "real-time AI." This subfield is still being defined by the common interests of researchers from both real-time and AI systems. As a result, the precise goals for various real-time AI systems are still in flux. This paper describes an organizing conceptual structure for current real-time AI research, clarifying the different meanings this term has acquired for various researchers. Having identified the various goals of real-time AI research, we then specify some of the necessary steps towards reaching those goals. This in turn enables us to identify promising areas for future research in both AI and real-time systems techniques. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland, (Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-94-69) University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies,
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