A Revisionist View of Blackboard Systems

Reputation blackboard systems

Blackboard systems are motivated by the popular view of task forces as brainstorming groups in which specialists write promising ideas to solve a problem in a central blackboard. Here we study a minimal model of blackboard system designed to solve cryptarithmetic puzzles, where hints are posted anonymously on a public display (standard blackboard) or are posted together with information about t...

Manifest Destiny and American Identity in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

McCarthy scholarship has predominantly tended to stress the writer’s revisionism with regard to his rendering of the myth of the American West in Blood Meridian (1985). McCarthy’s novel has beenmainlyhailed as a critique of the violence of manifest destiny. This study aims to delineate aspects of McCarthy’s narrative which resist the predominant view of him as a revisionist. In this re...

Economic Status of the Elderly in the Era of Industrialization: The Revisionist View Revisited

A Revisionist Rendering of Structural Family Therapy

The popular view of structural family therapy sees the structural diagnosis of families as lying at the heart of this therapeutic approach. This article challenges that view. I t argues that the practice of structural family therapy is driven not by structural diagnosis but by two fundamental assumptions about human and family functioning: the assumption of competence and the assumption of uniq...

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...