Using Consensus Methods for Determining the Representation of Expert Information in Distributed Systems

摘要

By the expert information we mean the information given by a man-expert of a field of science and technology, or by some intelligent program (for example intelligent agents) in solving of some task. We assume that in an intelligent distributed system for the same task the system sites may generate different solutions, and the problem is for the management system to determine a proper one solution for the task. In this paper we propose solving above problem by determining consensus of given solutions and treat it as the final solution. We present a general consensus problem, the postulates for consensus choice and their analysis. This analysis shows that the final solution being the consensus of given solutions should be the most credible solution in the uncertain situation.