List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Part Foundations. 1. Introduction. 2. Blackboard Systems. 3. Cooperation in Organizations. 4. Knowledge, Architecture, Programs and Control. Part Creations. 5. a Framework for Logic Programming Systems with Distributed Execution. 6. A Meta-Layer for Knowledge Sources. 7. Knowledge Source Integration. 8. Control of Knowledge Sources. 9. FliPSiDE as a Process-Oriented Prolog. Part Evaluations. 10. A CDPS Analysis of FLiPSiDE. 11. Related Work. 12. Conclusions. References. Index.