• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.355-363
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• 2012

The Integration of multi-agent architecture and blackboard architecture may lead to a new architecture to cope with new application areas which need some good and strong points of both the architectures. This paper suggests an integrated architecture of blackboard architecture and multi-agent architecture by using event-based implicit invocation pattern and a blackboard event detection mechanism based on Rete network. From the viewpoints of weak couplings of system components and flexible control of knowledge source agents, it is desirable to use the event-based implicit invocation pattern in the integrated architecture. But the pattern itself does not concern the performance of the architecture, and it is very critical to the performance of the integrated architecture to detect efficiently the blackboard events which can activate knowledge source agents which can contribute to the problem-solving processes of the integrated architecture. The integrated architecture suggested in this paper uses a blackboard event detection mechanism based on Rete network to detect efficiently blackboard events which can activate knowledge source agents.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.12-19
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• 2000

In the development of a production process scheduling system a collaboration method must be defined for the cooperation among submodules within the system. The blackboard architecture is exploited for solving the collaboration problem, which is one of the problem solving architecture that belongs to the distributed artificial intelligence. The dynamic states of the problem solving processes are presented in the hierarchically constructed shared working memory called as a blackboard. The communication for the collaboration is done through the blackboard. The problem solving steps are contained in the global controller, one of a component that consists the blackboard architecture, as knowledge. The global controller activates proper submodules based on the knowledge. By applying the blackboard architecture the collaboration problem among submodules in the grating production process scheduling system (GPSS) has been solved as well as the system became adaptable to the future modifications and expansions.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.888-894
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• 2011

Blackboard architecture was designed as a means for dealing with ill-defined and complex problems. In order to improve the efficiency of the systems using blackboard architecture, this paper proposes a mechanism for fast detection of knowledge source activations which can contribute potentially to the problem solving of blackboard systems, whenever the state of blackboard is changed. The proposed mechanism uses a Rete network generated from the activation conditions subscribed by all knowledge sources to process the pattern matching between blackboard data and the activation conditions efficiently.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.310-319
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• 2003

As the importance and the need for network security are increased, many organizations use the various security systems. They enable to construct the consistent integrated security environment by sharing the network vulnerable information among IDS (Intrusion Detection System), firewall and vulnerable scanner. The multiple IDSes coordinate by sharing attacker's information for the effective detection of the intrusion is the effective method for improving the intrusion detection performance. The system which uses BBA (Blackboard Architecture) for the information sharing can be easily expanded by adding new agents and increasing the number of BB (Blackboard) levels. Moreover the subdivided levels of blackboard enhance the sensitivity of the intrusion detection. For the simulation, security models are constructed based on the DEVS (Discrete Event system Specification) formalism. The intrusion detection agent uses the ES (Expert System). The intrusion detection system detects the intrusions using the blackboard and the firewall responses to these detection information.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.47-73
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• 1994

In this paper, a blackboard-based road image understanding system is implemented. The 7 useful information which organized by the hierarchical manner are stored in the blackboard system. The 6 Knowledge source modules and the blackboard make the communications under the supervision of the control module. For a scene, each hypothesis is generated and then verified for every meaningful object. On the simulation results, the correct recognition ratio can be reached out 90%. It shows that the extraction of road information for the autonomous navigation can be obtained using the blackboard architecture.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.235-242
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• 2004

As e-business being rapidly developed the importance of security is on the rise in network. Intrusion detection systems which are a core security system detect the network intrusion trial. As intrusions become more sophisticated, it is beyond the scope of any one IDS to deal with them. Thus we placed multiple IDS agents in the network and the information helpful for detecting the intrusions is shared among these agents to cope effectively with attackers. Each agent cooperates through the BBA (Black Board Architecture) and CNP (Contract Net Protocol) for detecting intrusions. In this paper, we propose the effective method comparing the blackboard architecture to contract net protocol.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.91-105
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• 2002

The attackers on Internet-connected systems we are seeing today are more serious and technically complex than those in the past. So it is beyond the scope of amy one system to deal with the intrusions. That the multiple IDSes (Intrusion Detection System) coordinate by sharing attacker's information for the effective detection of the intrusion is the effective method for improving the intrusion detection performance. The system which uses BBA (BlackBoard Architecture) for the information sharing can be easily expanded by adding new agents and increasing the number of BB (BlackBoard) levels. Moreover the subdivided levels of blackboard enhance the sensitivity of the intrusion detection. For the simulation, security models are constructed based on the DEVS (Discrete EVent system Specification) formalism. The intrusion detection agent uses the ES (Expert System). The intrusion detection system detects the intrusions using the blackboard and the firewall responses these detection information.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2004

Advance in Internet technology has changed traditional production planning and control methods. In particular, collaborations between participants in supply chains are being increasingly addressed in industry for enhancing chain-wide productivity. A representative paradigm that emphasizes collaboration in production planning and control is CPFR(Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment). In this paper, we present a multi-agent system architecture that supports the collaborations specified in CPFR. The multi-agent system architecture consists of event manager, data view agent, business rule agent, and collaboration agent. The collaboration agent systematically controls negotiation between supplier and buyer with the aid of collaboration protocol and blackboard. The multi-agent system has been implemented with EJB(Enterprise Java Beans).

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.454-460
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• 2000

In this paper, an architecture is suggested which efficiently detects intrusions in network environments. In the architecture, the Blackboardbased agent coordinates opinions of several independent agents which are performing unique functions, by resolving conflicts and reconfirming notices of intrusion. In the simulation, it was found that conventional agents judge simple resource access activities as 'intrusion' while blakcboard-based agent reserves the judgement until additional information confirms notices of independent agents. Reconfirmation process based on additional questioning will roduce positive errors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.111-113
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• 1998

최근의 업무 환경은 네트워크를 이용한 다자간의 통신을 바탕으로 하고 있다. 조직의 주요한 정보 자산들은 다양한 내부 통제(Internal Control)와 각종 보안 시스템을 통해 보호 받고 있으며, 이들에 대한 침입(Intrusion)을 탐지해내고 자산을 보호할 수 있는 방안에 대한 계속적인 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 이러한 침입 탐지(Intrusion Detection)를 위한 소프트웨어 기술의 한 방안으로써 Agent에 대한 논의가 이루어지고 있으나, 이들 Agent간의 통신과 시스템 전체적인 측면에서의 조율(Coordinate) 및 관리에 대한 연구 성과는 아직 까지는 미약하다고 할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이러한 Intrusion Detection Agent들간의 조율을 담당할 수 있는 구조(Architecture)로서 Blackboard 시스템을 제안하며, 소규모 프로그램을 작성하여 침입 시나리오에 대한 탐지 과정의 시뮬레이션을 통해 본 모델을 평가해보도록 한다.