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Issue title: COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK IN DESIGN
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Chao, K-M | Laing, C. | Anane, R. | Younas, M. | Norman, P.
Affiliations: Distributed Systems and Modelling Research Group, School of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Coventry University, UK | Technology Faculty, Southampton Institute, Southampton, UK | Engineering Design Centre, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Abstract: In a complex engineering design, multiple engineering design teams are required to work cooperatively in order to design a single product. However multiple disciplinary teams in different departments and companies often use different systems with different modelling methods and techniques. While the parallelism of this approach can reduce the design life cycle, the complexity of the optimisation problem can lead to difficulties. Agent technology can alleviate some of the difficulties of concurrent design. In this paper, we present an architecture in which agent technology is used to model interactions between design systems, and thereby enable design agents from various design disciplines to explore the design problem and solution space. We also introduce a multiple-evolutionary approach with an automated negotiation mechanism to enable agents to exchange design solutions and to reach an agreed optimised solution for a global design problem.
Keywords: Intelligent agents, engineering design, evolutionary computing, negotiation, optimisation
Journal: Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 39-56, 2003
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