Managerial Architectures

Managerial Architectures

Managerial styles of Hybrid architectures are recognizable by their decomposition
of responsibilities similar to business management. At the top are
agents which do high level planning, then pass off the plan to subordinates,
who refine the plan and gather resources, and pass those down to the lowest
level workers, the reactive behaviors. Higher level agents can see the results
of their subordinate lower level agents (essentially eavesdrop on them), and
can give them directions. As with subsumption, a layer can only modify the
layer below it. InManagerial styles, each layer attempts to carry out its directive,
identify problems and correct them locally. Only when an agent cannot
solve its own problem does it ask for help from a superior agent; the agent is
FAIL UPWARDS said to fail upwards in this case.