Designing With Negotiation Using Single Function Agents
Price
Free (open access)
Volume
6
Pages
7
Published
1994
Size
634 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/AI940181
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
S.K. Victor & D.C. Brown
Abstract
During cooperative, multi-agent, design problem-solving, disagreements may arise among the expert agents. These differences are resolved by Negotia- tion. This paper describes the design and implementation of an approach to handle negotiation between expert agents. 1 Introduction This paper is about negotiation in design expert systems and presents the implementation of a demonstration system. The Concurrent Engineering (CE) system, 13D [Victor et al, 1993], was extended by allowing conflicts among the various expert agents. The extended system is called the I3D + System. The major claim to this work is that we are using a practical working concurrent engineering support system in a real domain. 1.1 Negotiation In concurrent design, where multiple expert agents interact, c
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