Using a blackboard architecture in a distributed DBMS environment: An expert system application
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Alex Lopez-Suarez; Mary McLeish; Matthew Cecile
- Source
- Statistical and Scientific Database Management ISBN: 9783540523420
SSDBM
- Subject
- Database
Computer science
business.industry
Data management
computer.software_genre
Blackboard (design pattern)
Blackboard system
Expert system
Oracle
Component (UML)
Artificial intelligence systems integration
Sequent
business
computer
- Language
This paper discusses the use of a blackboard control structure to co-ordinate various tasks involved in the operation of a medical diagnostic system. A number of methodologies are used to extract rules from a large database of statistical information. An ORACLE DBMS running on a SEQUENT parallel machine forms the core of the data management component. A natural integration of the DBMS with this blackboard planning strategy is outlined.