Data processing: artificial intelligence – Knowledge processing system – Knowledge representation and reasoning technique
Patent
1997-11-05
2000-02-29
Hafiz, Tariq R.
Data processing: artificial intelligence
Knowledge processing system
Knowledge representation and reasoning technique
706 46, 706 50, G06F 1700
Patent
active
060321423
ABSTRACT:
In a rule-based processor, populations of component agents are enabled to self-assemble into compound agents such as to give a degree of distributed artificial intelligence in a relatively simple system. The majority of component agents have top and bottom decision structures into which requesting agents can insert rules: the rule selected by a decision structure is the one which is valid following evaluation of a priority criteria and leads to the placing of a marker from the selecting agent to the requesting agent. With the two decision structures, behaviour trees may be formed from the top down or the bottom up, as required by the instantaneous situation to which the compound agent is responding.
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Brown Edward G.
Hafiz Tariq R.
Thorne Gregory L.
U.S. Philips Corporation
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