2021 11 20 Central Agent Priority Discussion

Members: Tarik, Daniel

Question: how should the new agent deal with goal priorities in the context of multiple goals?

Decision:

• Instead of potentially starting work on any incoming order, an order is only started when it is not conflicting with another already started goal. Conflicts are:
  • deadlocks
  • payment issues (more than 3 rings would be added to an RS)
• Orders have baseline priorities based on their complexity
• Other than that, the priorities inside instances of an order tree should be mostly the same
• Priorities might be adapted based on relevance (e.g. paying for a third ring should be less important than mounting the first ring)
• Delivery time might affect priority
• For now we will only start at most 2 goals at a time