Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence

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Distribution and Task Allocation

Parallelism in Artificial Intelligence Problem Solving:

A Case Study of Hearsay II

RICHARD D. FENNELL

AND

VICTOR R. LESSER

Abstract—The Hearsay II speech-understanding system (HSII)

(Lesser et al. [il

],

Fennell

[9],

and Erman and Lesser [6]) is an im-

plementation of

a

knowledge-based multiprocessing artificial in-

telligence (AI) problem-solving organization. HSII is intended to

represent a problem-solving organization which is applicable for

implementation in a parallel hardware environment such as Cmmp

(Bell et al. [2]). The primary characteristics of this organization

include:

1 )

multiple, diverse, independen ...