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organizations emerge from the fuzzy interaction of
heterogeneous fuzzy agents and their fuzzy roles.
The analysis of the behaviour of fuzzy agents during
design collaborations has shown that the distribution
of roles played by fuzzy agents is continually
changing. Fuzzy agents are characterised by fuzzy
organizations. The last one is the result of agents’
fuzzy roles and their fuzzy interactions.
5 CONCLUSIONS
In previous work we have already shown that
collaborative design is characterized by fuzzy
interactions, heterogeneous, and evolving
organizations (Fougères and Ostrosi, 2011). In this
paper, the modelling of fuzzy agents, their fuzzy
interactions, their fuzzy roles, and their fuzzy
organization, are presented. During the collaborative
design process, fuzzy agents grouped in
communities interact and play fuzzy roles for
converging to solutions of design.
A simple case study of “chair configuration”
illustrates clearly our fuzzy agent-based approach.
The analysis of fuzzy agents’ roles during the
collaborative configuration process shows that
organizations within FAPIC platform are fuzzy
evolving systems. Indeed, dynamic adaptive
organizations emerge from the fuzzy interactions of
heterogeneous fuzzy agents and their fuzzy roles.
Furthermore, the analysis of fuzzy agents’ behaviour
during this collaborative design shows that the
distribution of roles played by fuzzy agents is
continually changing. Fuzzy agents are characterised
by fuzzy organization which is the result of fuzzy
roles of fuzzy agents and their fuzzy interactions.
We continue to work on a better understanding
of self-organization of fuzzy agents and on the level
changes of their behaviour during collaborative
design activities. The current extension of FAPIC
platform to other design tasks offers an experimental
context to test the evolution of our model.
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