An Adaptation of the Blackboard Model for the Modelling of the Know-How of the Expert in an Automation Engineering Workstation

Abstract In realizing an Automation Engineering Workstation (PTA), a specific modelling concerns the know-how of the automation engineering expert. This paper contains a second complementary model based on the Generic Macro Constituant (GMC) concept already presented [IMACS-B 87]. It consists in an adaptation of the blackboard model. This adaptation contains a proposal of a blackboard oriented life-cycle, a definition of measures of complexity on the structure, and the use of the concepts of automatic classification and real-time for the realization respectively of the knowledge sources and the control structures.