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This paper discusses an intelligent and evolving agent based CAD system to support collaborative design. Such systems consist of autonomous and mobile agents, each performing specialized functions. The question is how to resolve conflicts between agents. No structured general methods have yet been established to this end. This paper proposes selecting a leadership style dynamically in the agent architecture based upon the state of the engineering design environment. This tool is derived from research in the psychology, sociology, and political science fields of leadership theory and applied to the evolving design artifact in mechanical engineering design.
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Summers, J.D., Shah, J.J. (2002). Leadership Based Agent Architecture. In: Cugini, U., Wozny, M. (eds) From Knowledge Intensive CAD to Knowledge Intensive Engineering. KIC 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 79. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35494-1_2
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