Abstract
De Kleer's Assumption-based Truth Maintenance System (ATMS) is a propositional inference engine designed to simplify the construction of problem solvers that search complex search spaces efficiently. The ATMS has become a key component of many problem solvers, and often the primary consumer of computational resources. Although considerable effort has gone into designing and optimizing the Lisp implementation, it now appears to be approaching the performance limitations of serial architectures. In this paper we show how the combination of a conventional serial machine and a massively parallel processor can dramatically speed up the ATMS algorithms, providing a very powerful general purpose architecture for problem solving.
Supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and by a grant from the System Development Foundation.
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Dixon, M., de Kleer, J. (1988). Massively parallel Assumption-based Truth Maintenance. In: Reinfrank, M., de Kleer, J., Ginsberg, M.L., Sandewall, E. (eds) Non-Monotonic Reasoning. NMR 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 346. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-50701-9_24
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