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This article introduces a control architecture for blackboard based coordination in cooperative problem solving. The basic elements of the architecture are goals, policies, strategies, methods, and knowledge sources. The basic control loop employs a bidding mechanism to determine the knowledge source to be executed at the current cycle. The architecture employs separate control and domain blackboards, and separate knowledge sources for the control problem and for representing the domain knowledge. It has a simple and uniform structure, and it is based on a formal basis, namely, extending a partially complete general goal tree. The architecture is implemented in Smalltalk and tested on a multiple-task planning problem.
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Kuru, S., Akin, H.L. (1994). Blackboard Based Coordination in Cooperative Problem Solving. In: Nof, S.Y. (eds) Information and Collaboration Models of Integration. NATO ASI Series, vol 259. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1132-4_22
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