Blackboard Architecture for Product Life Cycle Stage Definition
Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Soft Computing 2008
Darja Rudenko, Arkādijs Borisovs

The product life cycle concept suggests that a product passes through four stages of evolution: introduction, growth, maturity and decline. As the product evolves and passes through these four stages, profit is affected, and different strategies have to be employed to ensure that the product is a success within its market, therefore there is a need to define in time at which of the stages the product is at the moment. The blackboard architecture is not a new technology and has a lot of benefits; therefore it can be widely used. The blackboard methodology is a complicated system task solving strategy using different knowledge sources communicating by means of common information field. The blackboard architecture can offer a centralized system, and it is known that system centralization means that the system will be robust without complicating system’s parts. Instead, simple parts will make up robust system.


Keywords
blackboard architecture, blackboard benefits, product life cycle, PLC stage definition

Publication language
English (en)
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