Distributed blackbox: a testbed for distributed problem solving

Author

Pitula, K. ; Radhakrishnan, T. ; Grossner, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

1990

fDate

21-23 Mar 1990

Firstpage

741

Lastpage

748

Abstract

Distributed blackbox (DBB) is an adapted version of the game of blackbox. It is shown why DBB is a suitable testbed for experimental research in distributed problem solving, wherein several experts cooperate with each other to solve a single problem. DBB is compared with another well-known testbed called DVMT (distributed vehicle monitoring testbed), and the advantages and disadvantages of using DBB are made apparent. Knowledge engineering, verification, and performance evaluation of the underlying expert systems for DBB require fewer man-years than for DVMT, while the richness of the problems to be solved is retained

Keywords

distributed processing; expert systems; performance evaluation; adapted version; distributed blackbox; distributed problem solving; distributed vehicle monitoring testbed; expert systems; game of blackbox; knowledge engineering; performance evaluation; verification; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Distributed computing; Expert systems; Knowledge engineering; Monitoring; Problem-solving; Remotely operated vehicles; System performance; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1990. Conference Proceedings., Ninth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2030-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1990.101694

Filename

101694