Artificial social intelligence is about making better intelligent systems out of a group of cooperating less intelligent problem solver agents. Better intelligence can be achieved by having expert agent with diverse expertise cooperating and working on the same problem. For that purpose a platform is required, which, in one hand, provides the freedom for developers to implement any form of solution in their agents, and in the other hand, facilitates mutual understanding between heterogeneous agents by standardizing the way they represent and inquire knowledge. While most published works are concerned with one or the other, the Knowledge Request Broker (KRB) system reported in this paper supports both requirements, and is made specifically for intelligent agents. This paper proposes an architecture for KRB, and provides a practical example for its usage in solving curve-fitting problems.
A-Cell is a high-level abstraction of fine-grained parallelism specifically designed to be applicable to all range of parallel devices from super computers based on CPUs or GPUs, to network of embedded devices. To achieve this, A-Cell adopts a programming model called "connectionist computing" and with that takes a leap step away from Turing programming model. Also, in contrast with most common solutions like PGAS that are holistic, the philosophy of A-Cell is reductionist. An ACell encapsulates a fine-grained task with its related variables. A source-to-source compiler translates the program to a set of programs that are compilable to the target devices. Execution of the task is through massive instantiation of an A-Cell prototype. The runtime system takes the responsibility of distributing A-Cell instances between all available nodes, cores or multiprocessors (MPs). The runtime system also assures synchronization and consistency between A-Cell instances. This paper introduces the theoretical aspect of A-Cell, its semantics and its design logic, and reports the progress made for its materialization, including the A-Cell simulator, C/C++ runtime system, and precompiler.
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