Partner Selection System for Collaborative Design

With the development of the global market, the growth internet technology is changing design style. Collaborative design is a new design style for designers of different places to complete the same design project. However, how to select a suitable partner for the collaborative design project is an important problem. A fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology is presented for the partner selection, which provide a multi-criteria decision making approach for partner evaluation and selection decision. Firstly, the concept of fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is introduced and the framework of system is constructed. Secondly, the criteria weights are calculated by the fuzzy AHP to search for the suitable partner. Then the partner is found by AHP. The system for partner selection is established by means of fuzzy AHP method. XML is applied for the evaluation model to explain the relationship of system.At last, a prototype is presented to demonstrate the methodology.