A Negotiation-based Interface Between a Real-time Scheduler and a Decision-Maker
Alan Garvey, Keith Decker, Victor Lesser · 1994
In our work on real-time problem solving we have found that the interface between the decision-maker and the real-time scheduler needs to be complex and bidirectional. We argue that this interface can usefully be modeled as a negotiation process. In this paper we present the details of the interface, as well as our scheduler that is capable of scheduling real-time tasks and providing the information required by the interface. 1 This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IRI-9208920, NSF contract CDA 8922572, DARPA under ONR contract N00014-92-J-1698 and ONR contract N00014-92-J-1450. The content of the information does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government and no official endorsement should be inferred. 1 Introduction In previous work on real-time scheduling, the interface between the scheduler and the application has been very simple. It is usually assumed that the application passes tasks on to the ...