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Negotiation plays a key role in concurrent engineering, where experts from many disciplines involved at many stages of the product life cycle, and therefore possibly with sharply diverging viewpoints, need to cooperate. Design advice tools can assist in negotiation by making their critiques conveniently available to all members of the product development team. Constraint-based languages provide a convenient representation of real-world problems like those encountered in concurrent engineering, so we believe they are a good basis for building such design advice tools. We describe a protocol by which design advice systems can recognize conflict, and support and mediate negotiation fairly.1
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Bahler, D., Dupont, C., Bowen, J. (1994). An Axiomatic Approach that Supports Negotiated Resolution of Design Conflicts in Concurrent Engineering. In: Gero, J.S., Sudweeks, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Design ’94. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0928-4_21
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