6. Reactive Agents

Question 1

Reactive agents
Agents equipped with simple ___ that
perceive and quickly ___ to changes in the ___
They do not use ___

Answer 1

Processing units
React
Environment
Complex symbolic reasoning

Question 2

In reactive agent systems the ___ is ___ in the system and emerges from the interaction among agent ___ and the ___

Answer 2

Intelligence is distributed
Components
Environment

Question 3

Reactive agents make decisions based entirely on the ___

Answer 3

Present

Question 4

Reactive agents can obtain complex behaviors from combining ___

Answer 4

Individual behaviors

Question 5

Subsumption architecture
. A set of ___ behaviors
. Each behavior module can be seen as an ___ function

Answer 5

. Task-accomplishing

. Action selection

Question 6

Behaviour module
1- Perceptual \_\_\_ are mapped into \_\_\_
2- Each behavior module is intended to perform a \_\_\_

Answer 6

1- Inputs / Actions

2- Task

Question 7

Every time a behaviour model is added to the reactive agent system the priorities need to be ___

Answer 7

Re-adjusted

Question 8

Advantages of reactive agents:
1- S\_\_\_
2- E\_\_\_
3- C\_\_\_ t\_\_\_
4- R\_\_\_ against f\_\_\_
5- E\_\_\_
6- E\_\_\_

Answer 8

1- Simplicity
2- Economy
3- Computational tractability
4- Robustness against failure
5- Elegance
6- Extensibility

Question 9

Limitations of reactive agents:
1- Without environment models agents need sufficient ___
2- Because decisions are based on local information agents have a ___ view
3- Purely reactive agents cannot ___
4- Hard to find a ___ for engineering the agents
5- Dynamics among different behaviors become too ___ when the agents have a high number of ___

Answer 9

1- Local information
2- Short-term 
3- Learn
4- Methodology 
5- Complex / Layers