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Issue title: COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK IN DESIGN
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Younas, Muhammad | Chao, Kuo-Ming | Anane, Rachid | James, Anne | Tsai, Chen Fang
Affiliations: Distributed Systems and Modelling Research Group, School of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, CV1 5FB, UK | Department of Industrial Management, Aletheia University, Taiwan
Abstract: Engineering design activities in distributed environments like the Web require fault tolerance and concurrent access to shared resources such as databases and Web servers. Such activities are generally dynamic, cooperative, long-lived, interactive and non-prescriptive. We propose a new multi-agent transaction model, which is based on extended transactions and multi-agent technologies. The novelty of this model is that it automatically customises transactions to the requirements of design activities. In addition, this model is believed to improve concurrency, fault tolerance, facilitate interaction between and co-operation among the participating systems involved in design activities. The proposed model is formally specified using CCS (Calculus of Communicating Systems) language. Formalisation is crucial in ensuring the correctness, reliability, and recovery of multi-agents transactions, given the complex and unreliable nature of the distributed design activities.
Keywords: Transactions, Multi-agents, Design activities, Formal Specification, CCS
Journal: Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 57-70, 2003
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