A Study on a Conceptual Model for Distributed Problem Solving


The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 107-117, Jan. 1996
10.3745/KIPSTE.1996.3.1.107,   PDF Download:

Abstract

This paper proposes a conceptual model for distributed problem solving(DPS), where cooperation and communication among agents are based on ''virtual shared memory(VSM)''. In this model, all agents in a DPS system view all the memory in a distributed computer system as a single shared memory, in which data, tasks, and results can be accessed by any of the agents. Several agents cooperatively solve a complex problem, as agents write data, intermediate results of execution, and tasks requested to other agents to VSM and other agents read or execute them. Also, in order to develop DPS systems based on the proposed conceptual model, this paper designs a DPS system development environment(DPS-VSM) using Network Linda. This paper shows utility of the proposed model by presenting an example of simulating a VSM-based DPS system, and analyzes the model by comparing the features of DPS-VSM with some other DAI programming shells.


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[IEEE Style]
K. E. Kyung, "A Study on a Conceptual Model for Distributed Problem Solving," The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 107-117, 1996. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1996.3.1.107.

[ACM Style]
Kim Eun Kyung. 1996. A Study on a Conceptual Model for Distributed Problem Solving. The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), 3, 1, (1996), 107-117. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1996.3.1.107.