The Blackboard Architecture provides a mechanism for storing data and logic and using it to make decisions that impact the application environment that the Blackboard Architecture network models. While rule-fact-action networks can represent numerous types of data, the relationships that can be easily modeled are limited by the propositional logic nature of the rule-fact network structure. This paper proposes and evaluates the inclusion of containers and links in the Blackboard Architecture. These objects are designed to allow them to model organizational, physical, spatial and other relationships that cannot be readily or efficiently implemented as Boolean logic rules. Containers group related facts together and can be nested to implement complex relationships. Links interconnect containers that have a relationship that is relevant to their organizational purpose. Both objects, together, facilitate new ways of using the Blackboard Architecture and enable or simply its use for complex tasks that have multiple types of relationships that need to be considered during operations.

翻译：黑板架构提供了一种存储数据和逻辑的机制，并利用这些数据与逻辑进行决策，从而影响其网络模型所模拟的应用环境。尽管规则-事实-动作网络能够表示多种数据类型，但规则-事实网络结构的命题逻辑本质限制了其可轻松建模的关系类型。本文提出并评估了在黑板架构中引入容器与链接的方案。这些对象的设计旨在能够建模组织、物理、空间及其他难以通过布尔逻辑规则高效实现的关系。容器将相关事实分组，并可通过嵌套实现复杂关系；链接则用于互连具有组织关联的容器。这两种对象共同促进了黑板架构的新应用方式，并简化了其在需处理多种关系类型的复杂任务中的使用，这些关系在操作过程中必须被纳入考量。