This research extends a tradition of distributed theories of mind into the implementation of a distributed problem solver. In this problem solver a number of ideas from Minsky's Society of Mind are implemented and are found to provide powerful abstractions for the programming of distributed systems. These abstractions are the cauldron, a mechanism for instantiating reasoning contexts, the frame, a way of modularly describing those contexts and the goal-node, a mechanism for bringing a particular context to bear on a specific task. The implementation of both these abstractions and the distributed problem solver in which they run is described, accompanied by examples of their application to various domains.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/5676 |
| Date | 01 September 1986 |
| Creators | Haase, Ken |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 44 p., 2790018 bytes, 2181707 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf |
| Relation | AIM-673 |
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