Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++

"The human brain is far more complicated than any computer, and in any event the benchmark to be attained by some super microchip of the...

The blackboard model is an approach to collaborative problem solving. The blackboard is used to record, coordinate, and communicate the efforts of two or more...

There is no one way to structure a blackboard. However, most blackboards will have certain characteristics and attributes in common. The original contents of the...

Knowledge sources are represented as objects, procedures, sets of rules, logic assertions, and in some cases entire programs. Knowledge sources have a condition part and...

There are several layers of control in a blackboard implementation where the knowledge sources may be activated concurrently. At the lowest layer their synchronization schemes...

Recall from that a CORBA object is a platform-independent distributed object. CORBA objects can be accessed between processes on the same machines or processes running...

The choice of a CORBA-based blackboard is a natural choice when the knowledge sources will be implemented within an intranet or the Internet environment or...

The knowledge sources are implemented within separate threads. The blackboard's constructor creates the threads and assigns each thread a specific knowledge source. This gives the...

The blackboard model supports concurrency. The concurrency is inherent in the structure of the blackboard and the relationship between the blackboard and the knowledge sources...