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Wave Model for Advanced Knowledge Processing.

N9022291

Publication Date	1989
Personal Author	Sapaty, P. S.
Page Count	35
Abstract	A completely new concept of a universal parallel graph machine is proposed. Its underlying activity is not a program in the usual sense, but a highly organized network-structured active data of large volume which directly interprets strings of the powerful general purpose WAVE metalanguage. The WAVE strings, together with the transit information, propagate in a distributed data space in an asynchronous wavefront mode, colonizing the appropriate regions in it and activating a variety of parallel processes for solving the most diverse classes of graph and network problems. This logic-flow organization, where algorithms exist and develop directly in a large data space, dynamically matching themselves with the distributed data, permits the creation of radically new and powerful computers for advanced knowledge processing. Not being burdened with the traditional centralized control, communication or algorithmic resources, they may include large numbers of processing elements and efficiently exploit the advantages of the VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) technology.
Keywords	Data processing Expert systems Distributed processing Very large scale integration Logic programming Network control Parallel processing (Computers) Foreign technology Models
Source Agency	NASA Foreign Exchange Program
NTIS Subject Category	62 - Computers, Control & Information Theory
Corporate Authors	Oxford Univ. (England).; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	199021

Wave Model for Advanced Knowledge Processing.

Wave Model for Advanced Knowledge Processing.
N9022291

Publication Date	1989
Personal Author	Sapaty, P. S.
Page Count	35
Abstract	A completely new concept of a universal parallel graph machine is proposed. Its underlying activity is not a program in the usual sense, but a highly organized network-structured active data of large volume which directly interprets strings of the powerful general purpose WAVE metalanguage. The WAVE strings, together with the transit information, propagate in a distributed data space in an asynchronous wavefront mode, colonizing the appropriate regions in it and activating a variety of parallel processes for solving the most diverse classes of graph and network problems. This logic-flow organization, where algorithms exist and develop directly in a large data space, dynamically matching themselves with the distributed data, permits the creation of radically new and powerful computers for advanced knowledge processing. Not being burdened with the traditional centralized control, communication or algorithmic resources, they may include large numbers of processing elements and efficiently exploit the advantages of the VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) technology.
Keywords	Data processing Expert systems Distributed processing Very large scale integration Logic programming Network control Parallel processing (Computers) Foreign technology Models
Source Agency	NASA Foreign Exchange Program
NTIS Subject Category	62 - Computers, Control & Information Theory
Corporate Authors	Oxford Univ. (England).; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	199021