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View all- Choi KKim KYang H(2011)SET APPROXIMATION BASED COMBINATORIAL SEARCH FOR INTERACTION NETWORK-BASED CONCEPTUAL DESIGNJournal of Integrated Design & Process Science10.5555/2590483.259048415:2(1-15)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2011
Agents for multidisciplinary design in virtual worlds
Pages 267 - 277
Abstract
Agent models provide a generalized approach to the design of systems that autonomously monitor and affect an environment. Societies of agents that reason and communicate about an environment can achieve complex emergent behavior to facilitate and augment human activities. This paper introduces artificial agent technologies as a means by which the behavioral complexity of virtual worlds can be extended to provide the functionality needed to support collaboration in multidisciplinary design teams. Three key roles are identified that artificial agents can play to provide this functionality: support for multiple views of designed objects, support for the expression of relationships between designed objects, and compatibility with existing design tools. The implementation of a society of agents fulfilling these roles within a virtual world based, multidisciplinary design tool called DesignWorld is described. The increased behavioral complexity and functionality of DesignWorld's underlying virtual world is demonstrated using the results of multidisciplinary design experiments with DesignWorld.
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