document: A knowledge intensive multi-agent framework for cooperative/collaborative design modeling and decision support of assemblies Multi-agent modeling has emerged as a promising discipline for dealing with the decision making process in distributed information system applications . One of such applications is the modeling of distributed design or manufacturing processes which can link up various designs or manufacturing processes to form a virtual consortium on a global basis . This paper proposes a novel knowledge intensive multi-agent cooperative/collaborative framework for concurrent intelligent design and assembly planning , which integrates product design , design for assembly , assembly planning , assembly system design , and assembly simulation subjected to econo-technical evaluations . An AI protocol based method is proposed to facilitate the integration of intelligent agents for assembly design , planning , evaluation and simulation processes . A unified class of knowledge intensive Petri nets is defined using the OO knowledge-based Petri net approach and used as an AI protocol for handling both the integration and the negotiation problems among multi-agents . The detailed cooperative/collaborative mechanism and algorithms are given based on the knowledge object cooperation formalisms . As such , the assembly-oriented design system can easily be implemented under the multi-agent-based knowledge-intensive Petri net framework with concurrent integration of multiple cooperative knowledge sources and software . Thus , product design and assembly planning can be carried out simultaneously and intelligently in an entirely computer-aided concurrent design and assembly planning system
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extractive_keyphrases: decision support distributed information system applications distributed design virtual consortium concurrent intelligent design assembly planning product design design for assembly assembly simulation ai protocol knowledge intensive petri nets knowledge object cooperation
abstractive_keyphrases: knowledge intensive multi-agent framework collaborative design modeling cooperative framework agent negotiation