Design and analysis techniques for concurrent blackboard systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 669-680

  McManus, John William ^a   Bynum, William L ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DATA STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BLACKBOARD SYSTEM CODE GENERATOR; BLACKBOARD SYSTEM SIMULATION MODEL; CONCURRENT BLACKBOARD SYSTEMS; FORMAL MODEL; KNOWLEDGE SOURCE INPUT OUTPUT CONNECTIVITY ANALYZER; KNOWLEDGE SOURCE ORGANIZER;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030289947     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.541328     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. L. S. Baum. R. T. Dodhiawala, and V. Jagannathan, "The Erasmus system," in Blackboard Architectures and Applications, V. Jagannathan, R. Dodhiawala, and L. S. Baum, Eds. San Diego, CA: Academic, 1989, pp. 347-370.
2. R. Bisiani and A. Forin, "Parallelization of blackboard architectures and the Agora system," in Blackboard Architectures and Applications, V. Jagannathan, R. Dodhiawala, and L. S. Baum, Eds. San Diego, CA: Academic, 1989, pp. 137-152.
3. D. D. Corkill, "Design alternatives for parallel and distributed blackboard systems," in Blackboard Architectures and Applications, V. Jagannathan, R. Dodhiawala, and L. S. Baum, Eds. San Diego, CA: Academic, 1989, pp. 99-136.
4. _, "Advanced architectures: Concurrency and parallelism," in Blackboard Architectures and Applications, V. Jagannathan, R. Dodhiawala, and L. S. Baum, Eds. San Diego, CA: Academic, 1989, pp. 77-83.
5. _, "Blackboard systems," Al Expert, pp. 41-47, Sept. 1991.
6. D. D. Corkill, K. Q. Gallagher, and K. E. Murray, "GBB: A generic blackboard development system," in Proc. 5th National Conf. on AI (AAAI-86), pp. 1008-1014,
7. Also in Blackboard Systems, R. S. Englemore and A. J. Morgan, Eds. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1988, pp. 503-518.
8. I. D. Craig, Formal Specification of Advanced AI Architectures. New York: Ellis Horwood, 1991.
9. K. S. Decker, A. J. Garvcy, M. A. Humphrey, and V. R. Lesser, "Control heuristics for scheduling in a parallel blackboard system," Int. J. Pattern Recog. Artif. Intell., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 221-243, 1993.
10. R. S. Englemore and A. J. Morgan, Eds., Blackboard Systems. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1988.
11. R. D. Fennel and V. R. Lesser, "Parallelism in AI problem-solving: A case study of HEARSAY-II," IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. C-26, pp. 98-111, 1977.
12. B. Hayes-Roth, "A blackboard architecture for control," Artif. Intell., vol. 26, pp. 251-321, 1985.
13. R. M. Hueschen and J. W. McManus, "Application of AI methods to aircraft guidance and control," in Proc. 1988 Amer. Control Conf., June 15-17, 1988, pp. 195-201.
14. K. Hwang and F. A. Briggs, Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing. New York: McGraw Hill, 1985.
15. V. Jagannathan, R. Dodhiawala, and L. S. Baum. Eds., Blackboard Architectures and Applications. San Diego, CA: Academic, 1989.
16. V. R. Lesser and D. D. Corkill, "The distributed vehicle monitoring testbed: A tool for investigating distributed problem solving networks," Artif. Intell., vol. 4, no. 3. pp. 15-33, 1983.
17. Also in Blackboard Systems, R. S. Englemore and A. J. Morgan, Eds. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1988, pp. 353-386.
18. J. W. McManus, "A parallel distributed system for aircraft tactical decision generation," in Proc. 9th Digital Avionics Systems Conf, 1990, pp. 505-512.
19. J. W. McManus, A. Chappell, and P. D. Arbuckle, "Situation assessment in the Paladin tactical decision generation system," in Proc. NATO-AGARD Guidance and Control Panel 53rd Symp., Oct. 22-25, 1991.
20. J. W. McManus and K. H. Goodrich, "Application of artificial intelligence (AI) programming techniques tactical guidance for fighter aircraft," in Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf., 1989, pp. 851-858.
21. J. W. McManus and K. H. Goodrich, "Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tactical guidance for fighter aircraft," in Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 1990, paper no. 90-3435.
22. A. Newell, "Some problems of basic organization in problem-solving programs," Conf. on Self-Organizing Systems, G. T. Jacobi and G. D. Goldstein, Eds., Washington, D.C., 1962, pp. 329-423.
23. H. P. Nii, "Blackboard systems: The blackboard model of problem solving and the evolution of blackboard architectures," AI Mag., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 38-53, 1986.
24. H. P. Nii, N. Aiello, and J. Rice, "Frameworks for concurrent problem solving: A report on cage and poligon," AAAI-88 Workshop on Blackboard Systems, St. Paul, MN, 1988.
25. Also in Blackboard Systems, R. S. Englemore and A. J. Morgan, Eds. New York; Addison-Wesley, 1988, pp. 475-501.
26. M. K. Saxena, K. K. Biswas, and P. C. P. Bhatt, "DKRL - An object oriented language to support problem solving in distrubted blackboard systems," Int. J. Pattern Recog. Aritif. Intell., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 221-243, 1993.
27. H. Velthuijsen, The Nature and Applicability of the Blackboard Architecture. Leidschendam: PTT Research, 1992.
28. H. Velthuijsen and P. I. Braspenning, "Toward a formal model of blackboards architectures," in Proc. Computing Science in The Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1990, pp. 469-483.
29. H. Velthuijsen, B. J. Lippolt, and J. C. Vonk, "A parallel balckboard system for robot control," in Proc. IJCAI-87, Milan, Italy, 1987, pp. 1157-1159.