This paper discribes a document analysis system broadly consisting of a knowledge base, a blackboard and a set of tasks having their own set of spacialists for segmentation, recognition and for inheritance. The knowledge base contains a generic hierarchical description of the document structure in terms of layout objects labeled logically. This allows the generation of hypothetic networks of li...

The blackboard model is a flexible problem-solving approach that can be used in domains where the data and the knowledge rules are strictly separated [7]. It is used in a variety of fields such as speech recognition or optical character recognition. In this document we discuss the use of the blackboard model in the security field and the automatic detection of programming mistakes.

This paper examines the issues that arise in the control of blackboard systems for applications with large and complicated search spaces by analyzing the evolution of blackboard control architectures We feel that the issues addressed here apply more generally to AI application domains involving complex multi dimensional search in which control knowledge is as important to successful problem sol...

Online learning is becoming more attractive to perspective students because it offers them greater accessibility, convenience and flexibility to study at a reduced cost. While these benefits may attract prospective learners to embark on an online learning environment there remains little empirical evidence relating the skills and traits of knowledge acquisition with a synchronous online environ...

We report on the design of a blended-learning course in elementary symbolic logic. Challenges and solutions pertaining to the Blackboard e-learning environment (Blackboard Academic Suite Release 8.0) and a customized Gentzen-style proof checker are described. The purpose is to provide orientation for those in the planning stage of similar projects.