Meta-system in distributed intelligence systems

Meta-systems concepts have been successfully applied in software engineering. A net meta-system, with the different objectives and functions, is developed to handle the integration issue for distributed intelligence systems. Its concepts and implementation techniques as well as applications are presented in this paper. The new architecture is constructed for developing large-scale intelligent systems. It is a knowledge integration environment that consists of several symbolic reasoning systems and numerical computation packages. These software programs are controlled by a meta-system, which manages the selection, operation and communication of these programs. The meta-system has been implemented by using OPS5, C and TURBO-PROLOG languages, and applied broadly to many complex applications. This new architecture can serve as a universal configuration to develop high-performance intelligent systems for many complicated problems in the real-world domains.