Alan Garvey

AAAI Conference 1993 Conference Paper

Task Interdependencies in Design-to-time Real-time Scheduling

• Alan Garvey

Design-to-time is an approach to real-time scheduling in situations where multiple methods exist for many tasks that the system needs to solve. Often these methods will have relationships with one other, such as the execution of one method enabling the execution of another, or the use of a rough approximation by one method affecting the performance of a method that uses its result. Most previous work in the scheduling of real-time AI tasks has ignored these relationships. This paper presents an optimal design-to-time scheduler for particular kinds of relationships that occur in an actual AI application, and examines the performance of that scheduler in a simulation environment that models the tasks of that application.

IJCAI Conference 1991 Conference Paper

Effects of Parallelism on Blackboard System Scheduling

• Keith Decker
• Alan Garvey
• Marty Humphrey
• Victor

AAAI Conference 1987 Conference Paper

Computational Costs versus Benefits of Control Reasoning

• Alan Garvey

We assess the computational costs and benefits of control reasoning in the PROTEAN system, which is built in the BB environment. We experimentally manipulate PROTEAN’s control knowledge and analyze differences in total problem-solving time as a function of several component times. Our results demonstrate and explain the utility of control reasoning. They also illustrate the importance of experimental investigation and utility of the BB environment for conducting such investigations.