Agent-Based Collaborative System and Case-Based Conflict Resolution Process in Preliminary Ship Design

Authors:
Kyung Ho Lee;Jae Joon Lee;Young Soo Han;Jung Min Lee;Byung Hak Lee
Affiliations:
Department of Naval Architect & Ocean Engineering, INHA University, Incheon, Korea;Graduate School, INHA University,;Graduate School, INHA University,;Graduate School, INHA University,;Graduate School, INHA University,
Venue:
AI '08 Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Recently, the shipbuilding companies are assigning design and production environments around the world in different areas. Therefore, the concept of simultaneous engineering and concurrent design becomes very significant. In this paper, a basic architecture of an agent system is proposed to support the exchange and sharing of design information by means of ACL (Agent Communication Language) in preliminary ship design. Above all, the conflicts that occur in the middle of knowledge sharing in the system must be resolved. One approach is to adopt a case-based conflict resolution strategy formulated to resolve current conflict on the basis of previous resolved similar cases in agent-based collaborative design system environments. In addition, conflict resolution handler located in the facilitator which is an agent to control other sub-agents, is developed to treat conflict problems effectively.