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Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. David G. Schwartz

    1. School of Business Administration, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 299)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Introduction

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 15-26

    3. Blackboard Systems

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 27-42

    4. Cooperation in Organizations

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 43-51

    5. Meta4: Knowledge, Architecture, Programs and Control

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 52-58

  3. Creations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Flipside: A Framework for Logic Programming Systems with Distributed Execution

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 61-80

    3. A Meta-Layer for Knowledge Sources

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 81-92

    4. Knowledge Source Integration

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 93-107

    5. Control of Knowledge Sources

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 108-130

    6. BlackLog: FLiPSiDE as a Process-Oriented Prolog

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 131-146

  4. Evaluations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. A CDPS Analysis of Flipside

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 149-168

    3. Related Work

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 169-185

    4. Conclusions

      • David G. Schwartz
      Pages 186-193

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 194-215
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Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems provides an in-depth introduction to the issues and techniques surrounding the integration and control of diverse and independent software components. Organizations increasingly rely upon diverse computer systems to perform a variety of knowledge-based tasks. This presents technical issues of interoperability and integration, as well as philosophical issues of how cooperation and interaction between computational entities is to be realized. Cooperating systems are systems that work together towards a common end. The concepts of cooperation must be realized in technically sound system architectures, having a uniform meta-layer between knowledge sources and the rest of the system. The layer consists of a family of interpreters, one for each knowledge source, and meta-knowledge. A system architecture to integrate and control diverse knowledge sources is presented. The architecture is based on the meta-level properties of the logic programming language Prolog. An implementation of the architecture is described, a Framework for Logic Programming Systems with Distributed Execution (FLiPSiDE).
Knowledge-based systems play an important role in any up-to-date arsenal of decision support tools. The tremendous growth of computer communications infrastructure has made distributed computing a viable option, and often a necessity in geographically distributed organizations. It has become clear that to take knowledge-based systems to their next useful level, it is necessary to get independent knowledge-based systems to work together, much as we put together ad hoc work groups in our organizations to tackle complex problems.
The book is for scientists and software engineers who have experience in knowledge-based systems and/or logic programming and seek a hands-on introduction to cooperating systems. Researchers investigating autonomous agents, distributed computation, and cooperating systems will find fresh ideas and new perspectives on well-established approaches to control, organization, and cooperation.

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  • School of Business Administration, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    David G. Schwartz

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