Supporting dynamic management in a multi-agent collaborative design system

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 35, Issue 8-9, 2004, Pages 493-502

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

^a SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collaborative design; Design agent; Design knowledge; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INVESTMENTS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; DESIGN AGENT; DESIGN KNOWLEDGE; DESIGN PROCESS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 4043128038     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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