A Problem Decomposition Scheme for Distributed Problem Solving
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Shoji Tatsumi, Takaaki Okumoto, and S. Misbah Deen (University of Keele, DAKE Centre)
'94 Japan/Korea Joint Conference on Expert Systems,71-76, 1994.
Abstract
To deal with large-scale and/or geographically distributed problems, a
number of expert systems should be combined through communication
networks, and distributed problem solving (DPS) techniques are required
to make such a group of expert systems works effectively. In DPS, if a
given problem can be decomposed and allocated properly, the performance
will be increased because of high parallelism and small communication
overhead. Most of DPS techniques so far have been using such problem
decomposition knowledge in explicit or implicit ways, and such knowledge
is assumed to be given a priori. In this paper, we proposed an
automated problem decomposition scheme based on knowledge hierarchy
which can be applied to problem domains where problem decomposition
knowledge is not given a priori.
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