Abstract
With an increased focus on collaborative design for success in global markets, there is a need for a negotiation mechanism for designs distributed over autonomous stakeholders. This paper utilizes the unit price of the design variables as a medium for negotiation between autonomous and self-interested design participants represented by design agents (DAs). An artificial agent - the facilitator agent (FA), maximizes the overall utility of the design as a function of the prices of the design variables, and guides the design toward global feasibility. By relating the FA's price space to the DAs' design space through price-variable curves, a negotiation platform is developed and tested.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 496-507 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- Bilevel optimization
- Collaborative product design
- Design negotiation
- Distributed optimization
- Multiattribute utility
- Multidisciplinary design optimization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Strategy and Management
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering