Applying Multi-medians Location and Steiner Tree Methods into Agents Distributed Blackboard Architecture Construction

摘要

Distributed blackboard is one of the popular agent communication architectures, where the blackboards location and communication topology are two important issues. However, there are few works about the issues. To solve this problem, this paper presents a new method, which applies Multi-Medians Location Method to compute the sub-blackboard locations, and applies Steinner Tree Method to compute the communication topology among sub-blackboards. The model can construct the distributed blackboard architecture effectively according to the current underlying network topology.