The growth of computer science and technology has brought new opportunities for multidisciplinary designers and engineers to collaborate with each other in a concurrent and coordinated manner. The development of computational agents with unified data structures and software protocols can contribute to the establishment of a new way of working in collaborative design, which is increasingly becoming an international practice. In this paper, we first propose a computational model of collaborative product design management aiming to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the cooperation and coordination among participating disciplines. Then, we present a new framework of collaborative design which adopts an agent-based approach and relocates designers, managers, systems, and supporting agents in a unified knowledge representation scheme for product design. An agent-based system is now being implemented and the design of a set of dinning table and chairs is chosen to demonstrate how the system can help designers in the management and coordination of the collaborative product design process.
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ASME 2006 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 10–13, 2006
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-4257-6
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An Agent-Based Approach to Collaborative Product Design
Jian Xun Wang,
Jian Xun Wang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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Ming Xi Tang
Ming Xi Tang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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Jian Xun Wang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Ming Xi Tang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Paper No:
DETC2006-99149, pp. 715-722; 8 pages
Published Online:
June 3, 2008
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Wang, JX, & Tang, MX. "An Agent-Based Approach to Collaborative Product Design." Proceedings of the ASME 2006 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 3: 26th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. September 10–13, 2006. pp. 715-722. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2006-99149
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