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Abstract:
The
organization, optimization and dynamical control of design assignments
are key issues of product cooperative design. Existing methods for
product cooperative design focus on the disposing of business process.
They do not take into account the optimum way of distributing subtasks
in design. An idea of “collaboration cell” is presented which is made up
of designer, personnel cooperative agent (PCAgent) and design tools. A
model of invitation and bid is put forward to reasonably deploy subtasks
in product design based on PCAgent and task bulletin board, with the
decision-making bid in PCAgent and the definition of Ability operator,
Famine operator and Importance operator. The ”key path” method is also
presented to control and optimize the period of design, which can
inspect whether the task is reasonably distributed into subtasks or not.
The experiment in engineering indicates the rationality and validity of
all methods which provide the clearly theoretical foundation for the
organization, optimization, deployment and control of all design
assignments, and obviously improve the product cooperative design.
Key words:
Collaboration cell PCAgent Invite and bid Key path
CSCW
CLC No: TP391
Received
20000104, received in revised form 20000808
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