Reasoning about knowledge
Fuzzy set theory—and its applications (3rd ed.)
Fuzzy set theory—and its applications (3rd ed.)
T&Aelig;MS: a framework for environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Only people learn: organisations and systems can adapt
Computers in Industry - Special issue: co-operation in manufacturing systems, CIM at work
Multiagent systems and societies of agents
Multiagent systems
Computational organization theory
Multiagent systems
Fuzzy Mathematical Models in Engineering and Management Science
Fuzzy Mathematical Models in Engineering and Management Science
Cognitive factors in distributed design
Computers in Industry - Special issue: CSCW in design
Organization Self-Design of Distributed Production Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
An agent-based approach for coordinating product design workflows
Computers in Industry
A method and tool for human-human interaction and instant collaboration in CSCW-based CAD
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Collaborative environments for concurrent engineering
Fuzzy agents for product configuration in collaborative and distributed design process
Applied Soft Computing
A fuzzy configuration multi-agent approach for product family modelling in conceptual design
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Fuzzy agent-based approach for consensual design synthesis in product configuration
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
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This paper proposes a computational interaction analysis approach for extraction of emergent patterns and organization structures during collaborative and distributed design process based on its emergent state-problems. A better source of information on both collaborative and distributed design process as a time-based activity and the agent-agent interactions during the design process will allow design researchers to develop richer models of designing which in turn will provide the basis for a better understanding of collaborative and distributed design process and developing intelligent tools to support this process. Therefore, the proposed approach consists of discerning from the real interactions the different state-problems characterizing the mentioned process. The modelling of interactions corresponding to state-problems, permitted to observe the emergent patterns of collaborative and distributed design process: micro-groups and pivot agent. The collaborative and distributed design process is characterized by the new micro-group formation on the one hand, and by their evolution in the time on the other. Based on the properties of interaction, the approach has discerned three types of cooperation: complete, bilateral and quasi null. Results from some real collaborative and distributed design process, allow us to observe certain properties related to micro-groups, such as self-organization, dynamics and self-similarity. Self-organization results from interaction among adaptive human agents. It is an emergent structuration in response to non-linear collaborative and distributed design process. Dynamics results from the variation of micro-groups formation and the collaborative and distributed design process seems to articulate around one or several pivot agents. Self-similarity results from the similar emergent pattern in every discussion. This research served as core for developments of multi-agents system ISIAD (Intelligent System for Interactions Analysis in Design).