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The concept of Cooperative Open Systems is introduced as the confluent area of the work done in open systems, networking, interoperability, computer supported cooperative work and distributed artificial intelligence. A cooperative network architecture based on a network of knowledge-based systems called Facilitators is presented. The facilitators are specialists in cooperation, and have the global information about the domain of cooperation, as well as a model of the agents they serve as “executive secretaries”.
A case study is presented of a cooperative network allowing expert systems to cooperate solving more complex problems that those they solve alone.
A discussion follows of how the basic architecture of the facilitators network can be used as an intelligent computer supported cooperative work system. In such application the expert systems are substituted by human agents, and the facilitators act as they personal secretaries.
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Lemaître, C., Sánchez, V.G., Loyo, C. (1994). Cooperative Open Systems Architecture. In: Verdejo, M.F., Cerri, S.A. (eds) Collaborative Dialogue Technologies in Distance Learning. NATO ASI Series, vol 133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57899-1_12
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