Distributed artificial intelligence

Abstract

A PLATFORM TO MODEL AND BUILD INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS BY SIMULATING THE PROCESSES THAT OCCUR IN NATURE. The cooperation of specialists with distributed knowledge is examined, in the context of knowledge-based support for collaboration among different engineering departments in carrying out large design tasks. It is concluded that1each specialist department has its own private justification language, but interacts with another department using a common shared language.2there may be little shared knowledge, and the shared language may involve an abstracted subset of the private languages of the collaborators.3collaborative reasoning can be limited because of•expression problems, not being able to ask the right questions.•rules of interaction and protocol, arising from legalistic procedures or from proof strategy.•performance problems, not having sufficient resources, due to the complexity of resolving the distribution. A simple model for collaborative reasoning is proposed that defines a collaboration strategy as a dialogue game.