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[Patrick R. <pat...@gm...>]

All actions in a cycle take effect at the time the Done Thinking
message is sent. If you want some actions to be earlier, use the
request time notify mechanism.

On 9/10/05, Yuan Xu <xy...@ya...> wrote:
> hi,
> Patrick Riley
> I have another question about this:
> the situation is
>  the agent send the A at T, but not send the 'D' immediately, and send th=
e
> 'D' at T+N.
> when will the A be actualized? at T1 or at T+N ?
> thanks for your attention.
>
> Patrick Riley <Pat...@cs...>
>
>
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 04:24, wrote:
> > 2.Suppose a agent receives a sensation at time 'T' and it begain a
> > thinking cicle. At time 'T+N',it finishes and send the result action.
> > The server receives this action and actualize it in the simulation at
> > time'T+N' . Am I right?
>
> The server may add "act latency" L so that the actions only take effect
> at time T+N+L. I am not sure what value the server currently uses...
>
>
> > 3. Using the TimeNotifyMessage. Suppose a agent receives a
> > sensation at time 'T' and it begain a thinking cicle. At time 'T+N',it
> > finishes. It send a TimeNotifyMessage "R T", at time'T+N+M' agent
> > received the "T T" message and response with an action. My question is
> > from the server's perspective, this action will be actualized at what
> > time? T? T+N? or T+N+M?
>
> You have overloaded T (intentionally?) If an agent requests a time
> notify for a time in the past (as in your example), it may be delivered
> as a non-thinking time notify (meaning that the agent doesn't get to
> respond with actions).
>
> If you didn't mean to overload T, then if this happens
> time T1: agent receives sensations
> time T1 + N1: (N1 is the thinking time) agent sends request time notify
> for time T2 (where T2 > T1 + N1)
> time T2: agent receives time notify, spends N2 time thinking and sends
> action A
> time T2 + N2 + L: (L is the server's action latency) action A is
> actualized
>
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>
> BEST WISHES!
>
>
> Yuan Xu
>
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