From: vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Mike van der Velden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Summary: Blackboards
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:36:12 GMT
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Last month, I wrote:

> Does anyone know where I might find some papers on "blackboards"?
> A scan of the company's library's journals was unsuccessful.
>
> If you respond via e-mail, I will gladly summarize for the net
> if there is interest.

And now the promised summary.  Thanks to the following people for
taking the time to respond.

	ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
	Sarr Blumson <sarr@citi.umich.edu>
	dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
	Hidehiro Ishii <ishii@tsl.cl.nec.co.jp>

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From: ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)

> The ISIS system once supported a distributed blackboard interface.
> A technical report on this is available and is listed below.
>
> In practical terms, most people who use ISIS work with the ISIS
> "news" program which has the same capabilities.  Literature on this
> product is available on request from sla@isis.com
>
> ISIS is used heavily in many settings by a number of large companies.
> This includes some in Japan, although perhaps not at Fujitsu.


   TR91-1257* Design Alternatives for Process Group Membership & Multicast.
   Kenneth Birman, Robert Cooper, and Barry Gleeson.  December 1991.
   Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

   * can be copied from ftp.cs.cornell.edu using anonymous, binary ftp,
   from the ``pub'' subdirectory.

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From: Sarr Blumson <sarr@citi.umich.edu>

> As far as I know, the idea is first discussed in a paper by Raj Reddy and
> others describing the Hearsay-II speech recognition system in Computing
> Sruveys sometime in the late '70s (definitely before 1982).  Sorry I don't
> have a more specific citation.

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From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)

> Some old references:
> 
> Blackboard Systems
> Eds: Englemore, R., and Morgan, T.
> Addison-Wesley 1988
> ISBN 0-201-17431-6
> 
> A Blackboard Shell in Prolog
> Jones, J., and Millington, M.
> Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
> June 1985
> 
> Blackboard Systems in
> Artificial Intelligence: Concepts and Applications in Engineering
> Ed: Mirzai, A.
> Koran-Page 1989

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From: Hidehiro Ishii <ishii@tsl.cl.nec.co.jp>
 
>  I don't really know about blackboards, but Prof. Partha Dasgupta at
> Arizona University says blackboards are used as meanings of IPC in
> their Clouds OS.  Their papers may tell bibliographies of blackboards.
--
Mike van der Velden
Distributed Systems Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
e-mail: vander@tokyo.hi.flab.fujitsu.co.jp

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