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The basic idea of a blackboard system is illustrated in Fig 23.
Fig. 23 Blackboard model
The system consists of:
- Knowledge sources
- -- a set of independent modules containing
domain-specific knowledge.
- Blackboard
- -- the shared data structure through which knowledge sources
communicate.
- Control system
- -- determined the order in which knowledge sources will
operate on entries in the blackboard.
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