Multiagent compromise via negotiation
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Argumentation-based negotiation
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Computer supported collaborative design: Retrospective and perspective
Computers in Industry
Asymmetric negotiation based collaborative product design for component reuse in disparate products
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A study of argumentation-based negotiation in collaborative design
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
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Collaborative design is a common practice in modern product development. Companies specializing in different disciplines, which are often geographically separated, work together to develop solutions for the benefit of overall design. In such inter-organizational collaboration, participants hiding individual skills and design rationales is highly desirable. To fulfill this requirement, this study proposes a negotiation mechanism based on a price schedules decomposition algorithm originally developed in economics. The mechanism searches for globally optimal designs, where no participant is necessary to own full knowledge of the entire design space. This paper also applies multi-agent system technologies to realize a secure environment for automating distributed collaborative design. A test scenario of distributed tolerance allocation in assembly design validates the proposed mechanism.