Supporting evolution in a multi-agent cooperative design environment

  • Authors:
  • Hong Liu;Mingxi Tang;John Hamilton Frazer

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China and School of Information Management, Shandong Normal University, Janan, People's Republic of China;School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China;School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Engineering Software
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports cooperative and evolutionary design by cooperation of a group of agents. Multi-agent system architecture offers a promising framework with its novel approach for dynamically creating and managing agent communities in widely distributed and ever-changing design environments; while the genetic algorithm based approach provides a foundation for supporting evolutionary and innovative design abilities. The computational and information processing processes involved in evolutionary and distributed environment are discussed in this paper.