The Hearsay-II Speech-Understanding System: Integrating Knowledge to Resolve Uncertainty
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Knowledge and common knowledge in a distributed environment
PODC '84 Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Distributed Interpretation: A Model and Experiment
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
The use of meta-level control for coordination in a distributed problem solving network
IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Strategies of cooperation in distributed problem solving
IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Coherent cooperation among communicating problem solvers
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A simulation-based tutor that reasons about multiple agents
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
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Globally coherent behavior is the holy grail of distributed problem solving network research. Obtaining coherent network activity without sacrificing node autonomy and network flexibility places severe demands on the local control component of each node. We introduce new mechanisms that allow a node to compute an abstracted, high-level description of its local state which it then uses to formulate multi-step plans. Not only do these mechanisms significantly improve local problem solving performance, but they also enable nodes to make dynamic refinements to their long-term network organisation knowledge. The coordination decisions made by nodes are thus increasingly responsive to changes in network activity as problem solving progresses. We provide experimental results indicating that these new mechanisms improve the internal control decisions of a node, reduce the communication requirements of the network, and improve network coherence. We believe that these mechanisms would also be useful for control in centralised multi-level blackboard-based problem solving systems.