Paper Info
Title
Parallelized path-based search for constraint satisfaction in autonomous cognitive agents
Abstract
Cognitive agents are typically utilized in autonomous systems for automated decision making. With the widespread use of autonomous systems in complex environments, the need for real-time cognitive agents is essential. Cognitive agents are more capable when they are able to process larger amounts of information to make more informed and intelligent decisions. The solution search space for cognitive agents increases exponentially with large volumes of varied data. In this paper, we present the parallelization of the knowledge-mining component of a cognitive agent that can be programmed to reason like humans. This study examined a novel high-performance path-based forward checking algorithm on 128 compute nodes at the Ohio Supercomputing Center (768 cores) to achieve a speedup of over 200 times compared to a serial implementation of our algorithm. The serial implementation is around 10–25 times faster than a conventional Java-based constraint solver at generating the first solution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s11227-020-03339-2
The Journal of Supercomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cognitive agents, Knowledge mining, Autonomous decision making, Parallel forward checking algorithm
Journal
77
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0920-8542
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tanvir Atahary142.50
Tarek M. Taha228032.89
Scott Douglass342.50