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Using a blackboard architecture in a distributed DBMS environment: An expert system application

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Statistical and Scientific Database Management (SSDBM 1990)

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This paper discusses the use of a blackboard control structure to co-ordinate various tasks involved in the operation of a medical diagnostic system. A number of methodologies are used to extract rules from a large database of statistical information. An ORACLE DBMS running on a SEQUENT parallel machine forms the core of the data management component. A natural integration of the DBMS with this blackboard planning strategy is outlined.

This research is supported by NSERC operating grant #A4515.

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  1. Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ontario

    Mary McLeish, Matt Cecile & Alex Lopez-Suarez

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McLeish, M., Cecile, M., Lopez-Suarez, A. (1990). Using a blackboard architecture in a distributed DBMS environment: An expert system application. In: Michalewicz, Z. (eds) Statistical and Scientific Database Management. SSDBM 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 420. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52342-1_32

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