Controlling asynchronous team design environments by simulated annealing

A Multiagent Architecture for Concurrent Design, Process Planning, Routing, and Scheduling

“…In recent years, several distributed multiagent approaches to concurrent engineering have been reported, including the fine-granularity Design World system [9], the largegranularity Palo Alto Collaborative Testbed (PACT) [10], SHADE [11], SHARE [12], Anarchy [13], First-Link [14], Next-Link [15], ParMan [16], and DIDE [17].…”

Developing Instructional Design Agents to Support Novice and K-12 Design Education

“…A frequent motivation or target goal of design agent systems is to create intelligent assistive tools for designers, often by having agents search a design space for solutions 6,43,[45][46] . These design agent systems typically employ multiple agents, called multi-agent systems, which includes multiple agents with the same role as well as differentiated roles across agents 6,43,[46][47] .…”

“…A frequent motivation or target goal of design agent systems is to create intelligent assistive tools for designers, often by having agents search a design space for solutions 6,43,[45][46] . These design agent systems typically employ multiple agents, called multi-agent systems, which includes multiple agents with the same role as well as differentiated roles across agents 6,43,[46][47] . Some of the roles design agents may take on include search/configuration agents that create solutions [4][5][43][44] to evaluators that assess the performance of a generated solution [44][45][46] to manager agents that oversee and intervene in the design search 5,43 .…”

“…These design agent systems typically employ multiple agents, called multi-agent systems, which includes multiple agents with the same role as well as differentiated roles across agents 6,43,[46][47] . Some of the roles design agents may take on include search/configuration agents that create solutions [4][5][43][44] to evaluators that assess the performance of a generated solution [44][45][46] to manager agents that oversee and intervene in the design search 5,43 . Multiple agents of the same type may be included to perform similar actions on different aspects of the design, such as individual evaluation agents that each evaluate a design based on one of a set of performance criteria 46 or as an adaptive population of search agents with different preferences 5,43 .…”

“…These groups of design agents are then situated within a larger system which control their integration and joint execution of some type of design practices or behavior. While the exact details of the system architecture differ by research study or architecture model employed, many models employ well-established artificial intelligence algorithms, such as variations the genetic algorithms 5,43,48 or simulated annealing 46 , at the system level.…”