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Blackboard systems

The basic idea of a blackboard system is illustrated in Fig 23.

Fig. 23 Blackboard model

The system consists of:

Knowledge sources
-- a set of independent modules containing domain-specific knowledge.
Blackboard
-- the shared data structure through which knowledge sources communicate.
Control system
-- determined the order in which knowledge sources will operate on entries in the blackboard.





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