Synchronization of heterogeneous components within the hybrid expert system

The hybrid approaches to knowledge representation provides several important advantages. First, it allows the use of various kinds of expert knowledge inside the intelligent system. Second, it makes it possible to organize an interchange of knowledge between various parts of the intelligent system (including interchange between parts that use connectionist and symbolic paradigms for representation of experts' knowledge). This article describes hybrid systems whose knowledge base contains heterogeneous modules actively coupled by shared memory. Such framework is also called loosely coupled architecture.