Knowledge Representation Into ADA Parallel Processing

by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The Knowledge Representation into Ada Parallel Processing project is a joint NASA and Air Force funded project to demonstrate the execution of intelligent systems in Ada on the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory fault-tolerant parallel processor (FTPP). Two applications were demonstrated - a portion of the adaptive tactical navigator and a real time controller. Both systems are implemented as Activation Framework Objects on the Activation Framework intelligent scheduling mechanism developed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The implementations, results of performance analyses showing speedup due to parallelism and initial efficiency improvements are detailed and further areas for performance improvements are suggested. Masotto, Tom and Babikyan, Carol and Harper, Richard Unspecified Center ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CONTROLLERS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING (COMPUTERS); REAL TIME OPERATION; SCHEDULING; ARCHITECTURE (COMPUTERS); ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE BASES (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE); REDUNDANCY...

148 pages, Paperback

Published July 18, 2018

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.