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An experimental environment for exchanging engineering design knowledge by cognitive agents

Abstract

Large engineering design projects involve many different disciplines each with their own area of concern and expertise. A large amount of information (design data and knowledge) is processed and exchanged among such disciplines, and even within each discipline. Traditional computer environments cannot cope easily with such complex situations. Hence new approaches must be sought. This paper presents an experimental design environment organized as a population of asynchronous cognitive agents. Issues about the general architecture, the internal structure of an agent and inter-agent communication mechanism are discussed. A prototype including a number of independent agents is then presented and demonstrated on a small mechanical design.

Authors

Shen W; Barthès J-PA

Pagination

pp. 19-38

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

January 1, 1997

DOI

10.1007/978-0-387-35192-6_2

Conference proceedings

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

ISSN

1868-4238
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