Competence-based cooperative framework for iterative decisions in the aircraft design process

The present paper proposes a new approach for developing a generic design process, taking the aircraft design as use case. Our solution extends the multi-agent approach into a competence-based human resources and agent allocation. The solution consists into an iterative design technique that considers the reality of the design process as an evolutional process, where the new constraints are determined and take shape at each step. Alongside with the high-level aircraft requirements, each step demands the compliance and the setting up of some specific aircraft characteristics, which our solution identifies with the competences required for the involved human resources and software agents. The eventual re-definition of the current step specification involves a resources re-allocation as well.