Multi-agent design architecture for Integrated Design Systems
Anand P. Deshmukh, Timothy Middelkoop, A. Krothapalli, W. Shields, C. Zhang, Namas Chandra, Malakondayya Challa, C. Smith · 36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit · 1998
Integrated Design Systems (IDS) represent integration of broad range of high fidelity knowledge from expert sources in near real time to synthesize and refine design and product realization. Such a system should result in an order of magnitude reduction in product realization time. The characteristics of IDS are: coordination of asynchronous design activities; conflict management; and interoperability among heterogeneous software and hardware environments to accomplish an effective collaborative computational system. Multi-Agent Design Architecture (MADA), described in this paper, is designed to address the above requirements and provide additional features. This architecture provides seamless integration of product realization activities across heterogeneous machines, computing platforms, programming languages, data and process representations using distributed intelligent agents. An agent in the context of MADA is an autonomous computational entity which is capable of migrating acro...