Hacking Blackboard: Customizing Access to Library Resources Through the Blackboard Course Management System

DARBS: A Distributed Blackboard System

Prior to this work, an algorithmic and rule-based blackboard system (ARBS) had been developed over a ten-year period. ARBS benefited from a versatile rule structure and the ability to mix computational styles either as separate knowledgesources or by embedding algorithms within rules. It was a serial system – any knowledge source that was able to contribute had to wait its turn. We report here ...

Applying NAILS to Blackboard

A Semantic Web Blackboard System

In this paper, we propose a Blackboard Architecture as a means for coordinating hybrid reasoning over the Semantic Web. We describe the components of traditional blackboard systems (Knowledge Sources, Blackboard, Controller) and then explain how we have enhanced these by incorporating some of the principles of the Semantic Web to produce our Semantic Web Blackboard. Much of the framework is alr...

Blackboard Systems

Blackboard systems are not new technology. The first blackboard system, the Hearsay-II speech understanding system [1], was developed nearly twenty years ago. While the basic features of Hearsay-II remain in today’s blackboard systems, numerous advances and enhancements have been made as a result of experience gained in using blackboard systems in widely varying application areas. Unlike most A...

Using the Blackboard platform--more than a course site.