CLOVER: an agent-based approach to systems interoperability in cooperative design systems

This paper presents an agent-based cooperative intelligent design environment with a focus on the issue of systems interoperability. After discussing the advantages and insufficiencies of the existing standards and protocols for systems interoperability, this paper proposes an infrastructure of a multiagent-based cooperative design environment: CLOVER, which indicates that agent technology can be used to improve the interoperability among …