An agent based approach to modeling design teams

DS 58-9: Proceedings of ICED 09, the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 91-102

  Crowder, Richard ^a   Hughes, Helen ^b   Sim, Yee W ^a   Robinson, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modeling; Multi agent systems; Teamwork in design

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; COMPUTER MODELS; DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGN TASKS; DESIGN TEAM; INTEGRATED PRODUCT TEAM; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TEAM MEMBERS; TECHNICAL ASPECTS;

MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84859251433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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