Towards a tool for the design of cooperating expert systems

Author

Grossner, C. ; Lyons, J. ; Radhakrishnan, T.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1992

fDate

10-13 Nov 1992

Firstpage

446

Lastpage

449

Abstract

A tool to aid the designer of cooperative distributed problem solving (CDPS) systems will determine whether a proposed CDPS system violates any of the constraints for CDPS systems, and will display a prediction of the performance that can be expected from that CDPS system. This tool will rely on a predictive model for the performance of the expert systems in the CDPS system. Using the Blackbox Expert (a DAI testbed), an experiment was conducted to test the performance of expert systems in a CDPS system. Statistically significant differences in the Blackbox Expert´s performance were found when the CDPS system was changed. The results of the experiment are being using to create a predictive model for the performance of the Blackbox Expert when it is a member of the CDPS system

Keywords

cooperative systems; expert systems; problem solving; software tools; Blackbox Expert; CDPS system; DAI testbed; cooperating expert systems; cooperative distributed problem solving; Computer displays; Computer science; Expert systems; Interleaved codes; Predictive models; Problem-solving; Process planning; Protocols; Strategic planning; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1992. TAI '92, Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2905-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAI.1992.246446

Filename

246446