The Cassandra Architecture: Distributed Control in a Blackboard System (Ellis Horwood series in information technology) - Hardcover
Synopsis
Assuming a considerable familiarity with expert systems design as well as modern software and computing practice, this book describes one way in which advanced expert systems can be organized, based on the blackboard-inspired architecture Cassandra, which manages complexity by requiring and enforcing high levels of modularity, therefore producing a knowledge-based system for managing complexity. The book promotes the superiority of Cassandra over earlier blackboard approach, reporting results of testing the architecture in two very different implementations. Two major examples deal with a topical and important present day issue and the result of laboratory experimentation. Professional designers of advanced expert systems, as well as operational research scientitsts who may be concerned with the computerization of air traffic control systems may find this book of particular use.
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