Responsiveness

This article is about responsiveness in human computer interaction. For responsiveness of a vehicle, see Throttle response. For a related concept in electrical engineering, see Responsivity. For an unrelated concept in chemistry, see Reactivity (chemistry).
Not to be confused with High availability.
Responsiveness requires a low latency/delay of the entire input-output-loop.

Responsiveness as a concept of computer science refers to the specific ability of a system or functional unit to complete assigned tasks within a given time.[1] For example, it would refer to the ability of an artificial intelligence system to understand and carry out its tasks in a timely fashion.[2]

In the Reactive principle, Responsiveness is one of the fundamental criteria along with resilience, elasticity and message driven.[3]

It is one of the criteria under the principle of robustness (from a v principle). The other three are observability, recoverability, and task conformance.

  1. ^ Weik, Martin H. (31 December 2000). Computer science and communications dictionary. Springer. p. 1484. ISBN 978-0-7923-8425-0. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  2. ^ University of Tennessee (System). Space Institute; SIGART. (1988). Proceedings: the first International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artif[i]cial Intelligence & Expert Systems : IEA/AIE-88 at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI), Tullahoma, Tennessee, June 1-3, 1988. Taylor & Francis US. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-89791-271-6. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  3. ^ Jonas Bonér; Dave Farley; Roland Kuhn; Martin Thompson (September 16, 2014). "The Reactive Manifesto (v2.0)".