Parallel processing qualitative reasoning system
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1. A parallel processing qualitative reasoning system, comprising:
- a plurality of interconnected server processors, for evaluating pending qualitative physics hypotheses, wherein each of said server processors terminates hypothesis evaluation and provides partially evaluated hypotheses for each hypothesis that cannot be evaluated in a predetermined amount of time; and
a control processor, interconnected with said server processors, for providing either pending hypotheses or partially evaluated hypotheses to each of said server processors in response to each of said server processors evaluating or terminating evaluation of a previous hypothesis.
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Abstract
A parallel processing qualitative reasoning system uses a control processor and a plurality of server processors to evaluate a plurality of hypotheses simultaneously. The control processor provides hypotheses and user observations to the server processors and the server processors return evaluated hypotheses to the control processor. The server processors can be interrupted after a predetermined amount of time to return a partially evaluated hypothesis.
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1. A parallel processing qualitative reasoning system, comprising:
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a plurality of interconnected server processors, for evaluating pending qualitative physics hypotheses, wherein each of said server processors terminates hypothesis evaluation and provides partially evaluated hypotheses for each hypothesis that cannot be evaluated in a predetermined amount of time; and a control processor, interconnected with said server processors, for providing either pending hypotheses or partially evaluated hypotheses to each of said server processors in response to each of said server processors evaluating or terminating evaluation of a previous hypothesis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A parallel processing qualitative reasoning system, comprising:
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a plurality of interconnected server processors for evaluating pending qualitative physics hypotheses; and a control processor, interconnected with said server processors, for providing pending hypotheses to each of said server processors in response to each of said server processors finishing evaluating a previous hypothesis. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
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