A Parallel Rule-based System and Its Experimental Usage in Membrane Computing

Abstract

Distributed or parallel rule-based systems are currently needed
for real applications. The proposed architecture of such a system
is based on a wrapper allowing the cooperation between several
instances of the rule-based system running on different computers
of a cluster.

As case study a parallel version of the Java Expert System Shell
is built. Initial tests show its efficiency when running classical
benchmarks. Moreover, this parallel version of Jess is
successfully used to accelerate current simulators for membrane
computing.