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Communication

  Supertasks are largely independent entities; they tend to act on input and produce output, regardless of what other supertasks are doing. This is true except when a supertask discovers that it is lacking some information that it needs, or when it discovers something that might be useful to other supertasks. Then, a supertask can elect to communicate with another supertask. This communication can occur through two means--knowledge structures and explicit messages.



 

Kenneth Moorman
11/4/1997