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Distributed reasoning systems

A distributed reasoning system is one that is composed of separate modules (called agents) and a set of communication paths between them.

Such a system must provide:

Rich and Knight deal with aspects of general coordination, control and communication structures. In this lecture we will look at two specific structures that have become popular distributed reasoning mechanisms:



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