Supporting evolution in a multi-agent cooperative design environment

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 319-328

  Liu, Hong ^a,b   Frazer, John Hamilton ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cooperative design; Evolutionary computing; Improved genetic algorithm; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

COOPERATIVE DESIGNS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036622275     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-9978(02)00039-X     Document Type: Article

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