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Communities of cooperating problem solvers have recently begun to emerge as a paradigm for overcoming the complexity of building large software systems in the area of process control. Each agent is capable of solving some problems byitself, but its power can be extended by sharing information and tasks with others. Also, more importantly, the community as a whole exhibits some desirable problem solving characteristics (eg graceful degradation of performance, robustness, etc.) as well as offering the opportunity of connecting and integrating existing problem solvers. GRATE is a general purpose cooperation environment which enables groups of interacting problem solvers to bebuiltfor the domain of industrial control. It hasbeenapplied to tworeal-world problems in thisarea: electricity transport management and diagnosis in a particle accelerator beam controller. We reflect upon GRATE's functional architecture, its underlying principles and the insights gained during thisprocess.
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Computer systems based on cooperating agent architectures are currently introduced in industrial process supervision and control applications as operator support systems in tasks such as fault diagnosis, system restoration etc. Cooperating agents are relevant to these applications since they involve