A Study on Developing a Distributed Problem-Solving System

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  • COMPSAC '95 Proceedings of the 19th International Computer Software and Applications Conference
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  • 1995

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Abstract

In this paper, I have proposed a distributed problem solving(DPS) model, where a complex artificial intelligence problem is solved by multiple distributed agents, each agent solves a part of a larger problem in parallel and cooperates and communicates through 'virtual shared memory(VSM)'. Also, in order to develope the DPS systems based on the proposed model, I have designed a DPS system development environment called 'DPS-Linda', using Network Linda which supports communication and cooperation through the VSM by providing a single common VSM to all of the agents within a DPS system. In DPS-Linda, each agent consists of a seperate, individual interpreter(inference engine), knowledge base, and VSM manager. And, each agent's knowledge is represented in the form of OPS5-like syntax of production system. And, I have compared the features of DPS-Linda with some other DAI programming shells.