Sharing manufacturing information in virtual enterprises
Communications of the ACM
An Internet based STEP data exchange framework for virtual enterprises
Computers in Industry
Collaborative product conceptualization tool using web technology
Computers in Industry
A data exchange framework for networked CAD/CAM
Computers in Industry
Coping with conflict in cooperative knowledge-based systems
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
The design process: properties, paradigms, and structure
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Asymmetric negotiation based collaborative product design for component reuse in disparate products
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Knowledge-intensive collaborative design modeling and support
Computers in Industry
Knowledge-intensive collaborative design modeling and support
Computers in Industry
Study on collaborative design system based on PDM
ROCOM'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS international conference on Robotics, control and manufacturing technology
Two inventory review policies on supply chain configuration problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Proactive search enabled context-sensitive knowledge supply situated in computer-aided engineering
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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With the competition between companies being fiercer and customers being more demanding, the efficiency of design decision-making must be improved to shorten the product design cycle. Intelligent collaborative product design is needed in the product design process. In this paper, based on the Analysis-Synthesis-Evaluation (ASE) design paradigm and the parameterization of product design, an agent that incorporates the working mechanism of expert systems is designed to assist a designer in his work. In line with the modularization of the product design, a module-based multi-agent system is developed and deployed according to the CORBA standards to facilitate the coordination among designers within the range of enterprises and even virtual enterprises. In the light of preliminary tests on the Internet, the agent and the agent system show some, advantages to increase the efficiency of the design coordination and decision-making in the product design process.