| Article ID: | iaor19901169 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 441 |
| End Page Number: | 446 |
| Publication Date: | May 1990 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Kiountouzis Evangelos, Papatheodorou Christos |
| Keywords: | artificial intelligence |
Distributed artificial intelligence systems consist of multiple physically separated processing nodes, each having exact and complete knowledge sources, to solve a problem. The behaviour of these systems is studied by the open systems approach. This paper presents the findings of a comparison between the open systems approach and soft systems methodology proposed by Peter Checkland.