Authors:
Alain-Jérôme Fougères
1
and
Egon Ostrosi
2
Affiliations:
1
ESTA and University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
;
2
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Keyword(s):
Fuzzy Agents, Fuzzy Agent Modelling, Fuzzy Agent Behaviour, Collaborative Design Platform.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Complex Fuzzy Systems
;
Computational Intelligence
;
Fuzzy Systems
;
Fuzzy Systems Design, Modeling and Control
;
Soft Computing
;
Soft Computing and Intelligent Agents
Abstract:
This paper presents first a fuzzy agent-based approach for assisting collaborative design, and then, an analysis of behaviours of fuzzy agents evolving within a collaborative design platform. In a collaborative design platform, more effective design decisions can be made by fuzzy agents when fuzzy design information is considered in a fuzzy interaction based process and fuzzy evolving systems. The modelling of fuzzy agents, their fuzzy interactions, their fuzzy roles, and their fuzzy organization, are presented. During design process, fuzzy agents grouped in communities interact and play fuzzy roles for converging to solutions of design. A case study of product configuration illustrates the analysis of fuzzy agents’ behaviour.