Title :
Design of Agent-based Collaborative Design Platform for Intelligent CAD
Author :
Zhou, Zude ; Hu, Xiuyin ; Cui, Xingran
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Eng., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan
Abstract :
Intelligent computer aided design (ICAD) is an important direction to the development of CAD. The multi-agent technology is applied to the traditional CAD. An agent-based collaborative design platform for Intelligent CAD(Co-Cad platform for short) is designed in this paper. It uses the JADE(Java agent development framework) as developing agent platform and adopts Jess as the rule engine of the expert system. Agents can communicate and collaborate by means of JADE platform. Adopting the expert system, the platform can help designers to reason and make decisions. Multimedia technology is also integrated into Co-Cad platform, communication and identity authentication among collaborative designers from different areas are more convenient. Finally, the process of collaborative design using Co-Cad platform is demonstrated.
Keywords :
Java; expert systems; groupware; intelligent design assistants; message authentication; multi-agent systems; multimedia communication; JADE platform; Java agent development framework; agent-based collaborative design platform; co-Cad platform; developing agent platform; expert system; identity authentication; intelligent CAD; intelligent computer aided design; multiagent technology; multimedia technology; rule engine; Artificial intelligence; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Design automation; Expert systems; Intelligent agent; Machine intelligence; Process design; Agent; Collaborative Design; Intelligent CAD; JADE; Jess;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 2008. M2VIP 2008. 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Auckland
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3779-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-473-13532-4
DOI :
10.1109/MMVIP.2008.4749534
