A multi-agent framework for collaborative engineering design and optimization

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 337-346

  Hao, Qi ^a   Shen, Weiming ^a   Zhang, Zhan ^a   Park, Seong Whan ^b   Lee, Jai Kyung ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Korea Institute of Machine and Materials   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Autonomous Agents; Collaborative Design; Multi Agent Framework; Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECIFICATIONS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; E-ENGINEERING DESIGN; MULTI-AGENT FRAMEWORK; MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 14044273484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2004-57686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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