TY - JOUR
T1 - COSMO
T2 - A Communication Scheme for Cooperative Knowledge-Based Systems
AU - Wong, Stephen T.C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 28, 1992; revised July 18, 1992, and December 28, 1992. This work was supported in part by the NSF-sponsored Engineering Research Center, in part by the Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS) Center at Lehigh University, PA, USA, in part by the research grant STA-191101 from the Science and Technology Agency of Japan, in part by ICOT invited researcher program, and in part by NSF grant INT-9123128.
Funding Information:
This work is based on the author’s research done at the NSF sponsored ATLSS Engineering Research Center at Lehigh University, PA, USA. The author would like to thank John Wilson, anonymous reviewers, and members of the second research department at ICOT for their comments and suggestions.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to present the design principles and features of a communication scheme that has been used to support cooperative problem solving within a network of knowledge-based systems. In presenting this account, we attempt to answer a set of critical yet unsettled questions of cooperative systems communication, such as when and how a knowledge-based system knows that message to send, what the conditions of success are for a message, and how individual systems cooperate with each other for different purposes. To achieve this, we first propose two key design principles: 1) the loose coupling of communication issues and knowledge representation issues, and 2) the notion of communicative acts. We then work these ideas into the communication scheme COSMO, whose key features include knowledge handlers, an operation model, organizationl roles, message types, communication strategies, and protocols.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to present the design principles and features of a communication scheme that has been used to support cooperative problem solving within a network of knowledge-based systems. In presenting this account, we attempt to answer a set of critical yet unsettled questions of cooperative systems communication, such as when and how a knowledge-based system knows that message to send, what the conditions of success are for a message, and how individual systems cooperate with each other for different purposes. To achieve this, we first propose two key design principles: 1) the loose coupling of communication issues and knowledge representation issues, and 2) the notion of communicative acts. We then work these ideas into the communication scheme COSMO, whose key features include knowledge handlers, an operation model, organizationl roles, message types, communication strategies, and protocols.
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U2 - 10.1109/21.256551
DO - 10.1109/21.256551
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0027599089
VL - 23
SP - 809
EP - 824
JO - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SN - 0018-9472
IS - 3
ER -