Coordination factors in adaptive scheduling for soft real-time cooperative tasks: a performance study

In the complex work environments of modern industrial and administrative organisations, the problems of articulating distributed activities are at a high order of complexity. To master these complexities, we adopt a reflective system architecture. With such architecture the necessary adaptability for complex real-time systems can be attained. The advantage of the coordination mechanism (help) defined in this paper is to allow multi-agent systems to reason about their performance in terms of missed soft deadlines and completeness and to adapt to dynamic environments.