一种支持动态任务分配的协同设计方法

协同设计是一种复杂的、由不同领域的专业人员参加的群体活动.介绍了一种多Agent设计系统中的协作方法,提出了支持动态任务分配的公告板机制以及设计过程中的冲突协调方法.公告板模型结合了黑板模型与合同网模型的优点,有效地利用Agent的自主性和协作性,采用分布与集中相结合的方式,克服了在分布式环境下进行动态任务分配时采用黑板模型与合同网模型的不足之处.同时,所提出的冲突预检查及冲突处理的方法可以在设计的早期阶段发现和解决冲突,以避免不必要的资源浪费.

A Cooperative Design Approach Supporting Dynamic Task Assignation

Cooperative design is a complex group activity that involves participants with heterogeneous skill. In this paper, a cooperative design approach in a multi-agent design system is introduced and a form of Bulletin Board that supports dynamic task assignation and a kind of conciliatory approach when conflict occurs in design are presented. According to autonomous and cooperative features, the form of Bulletin Board combines the advantage of black board and contract-net and introduces a style of distributed and centralized combination, weakens some failings of black board and contract-net during dynamic assignation in distributed environment. Then, it puts forward a conflict pre-checking and conflict processing approach. This approach aims at finding and solving conflict during the early design phase and decreasing resource waste.