Con icts and Negotiation in Single Function Agent Based Design Systems
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چکیده
A basic ingredient of Concurrent Engineering (CE) is that all aspects of the product's life-cycle should be considered as early as possible during design. A key idea that has been adopted for the implementation of CE is the use of a team, in which each member is an expert on some aspect of the product in a phase of its life-cycle. In our work, we use a team of software agents. Our goal is to study in detail the interactions, con icts and con ict resolution that is possible with such a multi-agent system. The approach is to use Single Function Agents (SiFAs), each of which can perform a very specialized task, from a single point of view. The ability to represent expertise with di erent points of view is very important in design. These di erent points of view usually cause con icts among agents, and these con icts need to be resolved in order for the design process to be successful. Therefore, agents need to be capable of detecting and resolving these con icts. This paper presents a model of con icts and negotiations in the SiFA framework. A hierarchy of possible con icts is proposed and the steps of the negotiation process are discussed. Short Title: Con icts and Negotiation in SiFA-based Design Systems
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