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What is the main purpose of the blackboard approach?
What is the main purpose of the blackboard approach?
- To enable multiple agents with different expertise to collaborate on a problem (correct)
- To facilitate the exchange of data between physically distributed environments
- To allow a single agent to solve a complex problem
- To provide a centralized control unit for task assignment
Which of the following is not an advantage of the blackboard approach?
Which of the following is not an advantage of the blackboard approach?
- Suitable for team problem-solving approaches
- Suitable for physically distributed environments
- Provides a simple and straightforward control mechanism (correct)
- Suitable for scheduling and postponement of tasks and decisions
What is the main disadvantage of the mobile objects (agents) approach?
What is the main disadvantage of the mobile objects (agents) approach?
- Lack of parallelism
- Little automated support for inter-object cooperation (correct)
- Programmatically specifying where to go and what to do, through a known interface
- Lack of network bandwidth for certain classes of problems
Which of the following is not a suitable use case for the blackboard approach?
Which of the following is not a suitable use case for the blackboard approach?
What is the main function of the control unit in the blackboard approach?
What is the main function of the control unit in the blackboard approach?
Which of the following is not a drawback of the blackboard approach?
Which of the following is not a drawback of the blackboard approach?
What is the main advantage of the Publish & Subscribe approach?
What is the main advantage of the Publish & Subscribe approach?
What is the main drawback of the Publish & Subscribe approach?
What is the main drawback of the Publish & Subscribe approach?
What is the OAA (Open Agent Architecture) approach based on?
What is the OAA (Open Agent Architecture) approach based on?
How does the OAA approach differ from CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)?
How does the OAA approach differ from CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)?
What role do service providers play in the OAA approach?
What role do service providers play in the OAA approach?
What is the role of meta-agents in the OAA approach?
What is the role of meta-agents in the OAA approach?