Constructing an Intelligent Collaborative Design Environment with Distributed Agents

摘要：

Increasingly complex design tasks and globallydistributed designers require a design environment tobe intelligent and collaboration-supported. However,as todays CAD tools are becoming more powerful inhelping designers draw geometric graphs, they havelittle intelligence and weak capability in supportingdesign collaboration. In such a context, distributedagent technology poses to be a promising way to welladdress these problems. In this paper, we present adistributed agent environment based on the CORBAparadigm. We construct an agent community to helpdesigners work collaboratively across computernetworks. To make it autonomous, reactive and pro-active, we construct an agent with a component-based framework. The case study section of thispaper demonstrates that the software systemimplemented according to the proposed architecturecan provide designers with both intelligent assistanceand collaboration support.

作者: Fang Weidong Tang Ming Xi John Hamilton Frazer

作者单位: Design Technology Research Centre,School of Design,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom,Kowloon,Hong Kong

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design(第八届计算机支持的协同工作设计国际会议)(CSCWD2004)

会议地点: 厦门

会议语种:英文

页码: 329-335

在线出版日期: 2004-05-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）