Meta-level Constraints for Complex Event Processing in Logical Agents

“Brittleness” can be intended as the propensity of an agent to perform poorly or fail in the face of circumstances not explicitly considered by the agent’s designer. In opposition to brittleness, ”Versatility” and ”Perturbation-tolerance” express the ability of being able to cope with previously unanticipated situations. These properties are particularly important in many practical applications which have the need to actively monitor vast quantities of event data to make automated decisions and take time-critical actions, i.e., perform ”Complex Event-Processing”. In this paper, we propose temporal meta-level constraints to be dynamically checked, that allow an agent to timely self-check and adapt its behavior, and in particular its reactive modalities.