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An Agent-Based System Supporting Collaborative Product Design

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 4252))

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Collaborative design can create added value in the design and production process by bringing the benefit of team work and cooperation in a concurrent and coordinated manner. However, the difficulties arising from the differences between heterogeneous system architectures and information structures undermine the effectiveness and the success of collaborative design. This paper presents a new framework of collaborative design which adopts an agent-based approach and relocates designers, managers, systems, and supporting agents in a unified knowledge representation scheme for product design. An agent-based system capable of assisting designers in the management and coordination of collaborative design process via the cooperation of a network of agents including mainly management agents, communication agents, and design agents etc is described.

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  1. Design Technology Research Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic, University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Jian Xun Wang & Ming Xi Tang

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  1. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK

    Bogdan Gabrys

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, SA, 5095, Mawson Lakes, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Wang, J.X., Tang, M.X. (2006). An Agent-Based System Supporting Collaborative Product Design. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893004_86

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