CKBS ’90

This volume contains the 17 research papers presented at the first International Working Conference on Co-operating Knowledge Based Systems, held at the University of Keele. This conference aimed at bringing together the distributed database (DDB) and distributed AI (DAI) experts, from both academia and industry, to discuss the issues of the next generation of knowledge based systems, namely Co-operating Knowledge Based Systems (CKBS). The papers are grouped under six headings: co-operation framework - DB perspectives; co-operation framework - AI perspectives; conflict resolution strategy; knowledge revision; multi-agent development models; interaction in data/knowledge bases.