Behaviour of Fuzzy Agents within a Collaborative Design Platform

Alain-Jérôme Fougères, Egon Ostrosi

2013

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.

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Fougères A. and Ostrosi E. (2013). Behaviour of Fuzzy Agents within a Collaborative Design Platform . In Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: FCTA, (IJCCI 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-77-8, pages 241-248. DOI: 10.5220/0004551802410248


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@conference{fcta13,
author={Alain-Jérôme Fougères and Egon Ostrosi},
title={Behaviour of Fuzzy Agents within a Collaborative Design Platform},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: FCTA, (IJCCI 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={241-248},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004551802410248},
isbn={978-989-8565-77-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: FCTA, (IJCCI 2013)
TI - Behaviour of Fuzzy Agents within a Collaborative Design Platform
SN - 978-989-8565-77-8
AU - Fougères A.
AU - Ostrosi E.
PY - 2013
SP - 241
EP - 248
DO - 10.5220/0004551802410248