Extension of the Blackboard Architecture with Common Properties and Generic Rules

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04287v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2023 09:40:13 GMT
• Title: Extension of the Blackboard Architecture with Common Properties and Generic Rules
• Authors: Jonathan Rivard, Jeremy Straub
• Abstract summary: The Blackboard Architecture provides a mechanism for embodying data, decision making and actuation. It lacks the capability to directly model organizational, spatial and other relationships. This paper presents and assesses two additional concepts to add to the Blackboard Architecture: common properties and generic rules.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The Blackboard Architecture provides a mechanism for embodying data, decision making and actuation. Its versatility has been demonstrated across a wide number of application areas. However, it lacks the capability to directly model organizational, spatial and other relationships which may be useful in decision-making, in addition to the propositional logic embodied in the rule-fact-action network. Previous work has proposed the use of container objects and links as a mechanism to simultaneously model these organizational and other relationships, while leaving the operational logic modeled in the rules, facts and actions. While containers facilitate this modeling, their utility is limited by the need to manually define them. For systems which may have multiple instances of a particular type of object and which may build their network autonomously, based on sensing, the reuse of logical structures facilitates operations and reduces storage and processing needs. This paper, thus, presents and assesses two additional concepts to add to the Blackboard Architecture: common properties and generic rules. Common properties are facts associated with containers which are defined as representing the same information across the various objects that they are associated with. Generic rules provide logical propositions that use these generic rules across links and apply to any objects matching their definition. The potential uses of these two new concepts are discussed herein and their impact on system performance is characterized.

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