Adaptive control is how Naevum's software paces itself under load, for operations managers, so that due work and approvals hold while the system slows the rest.
Align independent operating terms without replacing unknown readings with zero.
Known pressure readings or explicit unknowns.
Later measurement with its source/time.
Align independent operating terms without replacing unknown readings with zero.
Source, timestamp, load/memory/thermal terms.
Known normalized terms and explicit missing channels.
Missing channels stay unknown instead of being replaced with zero.
Distribute finite service while retaining protected due work.
Outstanding work, protected scope and finite resource limits.
Remaining need and actual service history.
Distribute finite service while retaining protected due work.
Task identity, due time, remaining need and protected scope.
Recent share and ordinary-work limits.
Ordinary work reduction does not erase protected due service.
Keep pacing, integral/reference regulation and temporal attention distinct.
Only available normalized measurements.
Observed response, unresolved cause or lost visibility.
Keep pacing, integral/reference regulation and temporal attention distinct.
Known condition and current pacing.
Declared reference and retained integral state where selected.
Standing cause, decay and refractory state.
Pacing, integral regulation and temporal attention are separate selected mechanisms.
Apply finite rates and declared dwell/hysteresis to eligible work.
Protected due service and eligible ordinary share.
Clamped pacing/attention output; no increase in authority.
Apply finite rates and declared dwell/hysteresis to eligible work.
Output bounds and active dwell.
Protected service and reduced ordinary share.
Output limits, dwell and hysteresis constrain the change.
Retain actual service and independently observed condition after the change.
Observed service of the original obligation.
Independent next condition, not an effect of animation time.
Retain actual service and independently observed condition after the change.
Actual service under the obligation identity.
Later condition, unknown readings and standing issues.
Actual service and later condition are independently observed under the original obligation.
Known pressure readings or explicit unknowns.
Later measurement with its source/time.
Align independent operating terms without replacing unknown readings with zero.
Source, timestamp, load/memory/thermal terms.
Known normalized terms and explicit missing channels.
Missing channels stay unknown instead of being replaced with zero.
Outstanding work, protected scope and finite resource limits.
Remaining need and actual service history.
Distribute finite service while retaining protected due work.
Task identity, due time, remaining need and protected scope.
Recent share and ordinary-work limits.
Ordinary work reduction does not erase protected due service.
Only available normalized measurements.
Observed response, unresolved cause or lost visibility.
Keep pacing, integral/reference regulation and temporal attention distinct.
Known condition and current pacing.
Declared reference and retained integral state where selected.
Standing cause, decay and refractory state.
Pacing, integral regulation and temporal attention are separate selected mechanisms.
Protected due service and eligible ordinary share.
Clamped pacing/attention output; no increase in authority.
Apply finite rates and declared dwell/hysteresis to eligible work.
Output bounds and active dwell.
Protected service and reduced ordinary share.
Output limits, dwell and hysteresis constrain the change.
Observed service of the original obligation.
Independent next condition, not an effect of animation time.
Retain actual service and independently observed condition after the change.
Actual service under the obligation identity.
Later condition, unknown readings and standing issues.
Actual service and later condition are independently observed under the original obligation.
An illustrative feedback method that relates valid observations to finite work and retained obligations.
Additional mechanisms are described in the technical reference.
What the research says
Capacity often sits idle, disruptions still arrive every month, and physiology suggests the efficient response is to prepare early. Naevum's controllers slow ordinary work under load while due work and approvals keep their place, so an operations manager can see which work was protected and why.
New requests arrive while a worker is late, memory is constrained and a verification step is due. A fixed-rate loop keeps spending; a simple priority queue can neglect recovery. Our control architecture keeps observations, commitments and permitted responses separate.
Manna’s interoception reads load, available memory and thermal limits. Unknown observations remain explicitly marked; a missing sensor is not a healthy reading.
The attention allocator retains each obligation’s identity, owner, remaining need, deadline and protected status. Due protected work receives service before ordinary claims.
Rate changes, scheduling and resource allocation remain within declared bounds. Pressure can tighten behavior while the action gate retains authority.
Naevum uses bounded feedback and stateful selection rather than one opaque “health score”. The result retains enough internal state to explain why behavior changed.
The reference interoception design takes the maximum of known load, memory and thermal pressure terms. Above its selected pressure threshold, it stretches the tick interval by a bounded multiplier.
Normalized known pressure terms.
A pace multiplier and an evidence record.
The reference configuration stretches by at most 4×; this is a design parameter, not a throughput promise.
The allocator gives the current focus a dwell bonus and applies a rolling per-organ cap to ordinary work. A noisy specialist cannot purchase the entire shared attention budget.
Urgency, slack, capped salience and recent allocations.
Service assignments with protected-work exceptions.
Vagus’s vital-sign regulator keeps two integral states, updates them from measured condition and reference, and applies a paired cancellation step before producing a clamped PI output.
A measured condition, reference and previous regulator state.
A bounded velocity recommendation.
An unmeasured interval does not advance the regulator; this discrete software law carries no imported biological stability guarantee.
The operations manager sets the pace range and the protected work; the controller acts inside it. Illustrative.
Illustrative situations, connected to the mechanisms that make them possible.
Marine engineering
Load, condition and sensor histories change while equipment remains in service.
Industrial edition
An operational process must react to observations while respecting equipment and responsibility boundaries.
Engineering organizations
Signals arrive from many projects, workers and resource windows.
Vagus maintains a potential for each subject. New evidence adds a full weighted charge; repeated unchanged evidence contributes a smaller standing term. Decay, firing and recovery are explicit state transitions.
Charge is weighted by condition and evidence trust. Measured signals contribute fully, derived signals contribute at reduced weight and untrusted signals do not charge the attention potential.
Crossing the attention threshold can produce an item. A refractory period prevents repeated immediate firing while the ongoing condition remains visible as standing.
A stale sensor cannot silently clear the condition it used to observe. The system retains the standing issue with stale evidence until its own cause is measured resolved.
The control laws serve a declared operation; they do not decide what the organization is allowed to do.
A resource-constrained personal agent slows ordinary work while retaining its objective and pending approvals. A recovery obligation remains identifiable.
Vagus combines repeated engineering signals, changing attention and historical failure evidence. An operator sees why an issue remains active or has become unobservable.
The architecture separates equipment observations, a proposed response and the permitted actuation path. Physical interfaces and safety limits are specific to the commissioned installation.
Inputs, retained state, outputs and limits of Naevum’s Controllers & adaptive control architecture.
No. A controller changes behavior within its operating envelope. A change to authority needs its own authorized process.
The two-integrator Vagus regulator is antithetic-inspired, with a discrete proportional/integral output. Briat, Gupta and Khammash establish a biological control motif under their mathematical assumptions. Those results do not transfer automatically to a software deployment.
The Manna reference pacing and attention implementations use explicit parameter bounds and preserve unknown measurements. Their activation and tuning belong to the named operating profile.
A software work queue, a model-serving workload and an equipment process have different observations, response delays and effectors. The controller contract identifies those objects, the response range and the intervention path.
Rate recommendations remain separate from approvals and verdicts. A stale interval cannot be treated as a fresh observation of a healthy plant.
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