Enabling agents to work together

For 20 years, tens of thousands of successes have been witnessed in which knowledge-based systems and other useful intelligent software agents have been constructed and deployed. However, amidst all this success, there is constant failure as well. These systems cannot share their knowledge, hence ca...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM 1994-07, Vol.37 (7), p.126-142
Main Authors: Guha, R V, Lenat, Douglas B
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Applications
Artificial intelligence
Computer architecture
Cooperation
Cultural differences
Expert systems
Homeless people
Integrated software
Knowledge
Language
Semantics
Software
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Summary:For 20 years, tens of thousands of successes have been witnessed in which knowledge-based systems and other useful intelligent software agents have been constructed and deployed. However, amidst all this success, there is constant failure as well. These systems cannot share their knowledge, hence cannot pool their expertise, and cannot work together synergistically. As a result, the agents need to share enough of the foundational knowledge in terms of which their specialized knowledge can be communicated. This notion of sharing enough in turn leads to 3 new questions: 1. What is this foundational knowledge? 2. How exactly do intelligent agents share it? 3. How much is enough? These questions are answered in detail.
ISSN:0001-0782
1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/176789.176804