On the Consistency of Distributed Knowledge

Mark Burgess¹, Demissie Aredo¹

¹Oslo University College, Norway

Abstract. Distributed systems that interact have neither intrinsically common knowledge nor consistent models for interacting with other systems. This relativity or even inconsistency presents a fundamental limitation to autonomic collaboration. In this paper, we define knowledge using the well-understood concept of information and show how promise theory simply describes the required conditions for coordinated cooperation and interaction in a distributed system.