Perceiving and planning before acting: An approach to enhance global network coherence
✍ Scribed by Nicholas V. Findler; Qing Ge
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 722 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0884-8173
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✦ Synopsis
Globally coherent behavior is essential for a distributed problem solving network. It is a characteristic of the whole problem solving process. We discuss in this article different forms of cooperation at different phases of the problem solving process, which have to be considered to increase global coherence. The connection problem and the timing problem are key issues for distributed problem solving. The "perceive-plan-act" loop is introduced for each problem solving node. It means that a node has to perceive the network state and plan its near-future activities before it takes an action. Different approaches to network perception are discussed. The experimental results show significant improvement of system performance.