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Effects of Parallelism on Blackboard System Scheduling

Keith Decker, Alan Garvey, Marty Humphrey, Victor R. Lesser
IJCAI 1991 pp. 15-21
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Abstract

This paper investigates the effects of parallelism on blackboard system scheduling. A parallel blackboard system is described that allows multiple knowledge source instantiations to execute in parallel using a shared-memory blackboard approach. New classes of control knowledge are defined that use information about the relationships between system goals to schedule tasks — this control knowledge is implemented in the DVMT application on a Sequent multiprocessor using BBl-style control heuristics. The usefulness of the heuristics is examined by comparing the effectiveness of problem-solving with and without the heuristics (as a group and individually). Problem solving with the new control knowledge results in increased processor utilization and decreased total execution time. 1

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Decker et al. "Effects of Parallelism on Blackboard System Scheduling." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1991.

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[Decker et al. "Effects of Parallelism on Blackboard System Scheduling." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1991.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1991/decker1991ijcai-effects/)

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@inproceedings{decker1991ijcai-effects,
  title     = {{Effects of Parallelism on Blackboard System Scheduling}},
  author    = {Decker, Keith and Garvey, Alan and Humphrey, Marty and Lesser, Victor R.},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1991},
  pages     = {15-21},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1991/decker1991ijcai-effects/}
}