Agent-based Collaborative Design System Construction Method

Since Iren Greif put forward the research idea of CSCW(Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) in 1984, CSCW has been developed quickly as a new research direction on computer. The appearance of CSCW makes the application pattern of computer arise great change. Therefore, it becomes one of the research focuses in the internal and international computer domain.Computer-supported cooperative design(CSCD) is an application of CSCW in designing work. The thesis just takes the cooperative design system as a background, studies the constructing method of cooperative design system and some key technologies for cooperation of multi-agent. All of these are supported by Chinese 863 high technology program "enterprise cooperative technology" and the ninth five-year scientific and technology key project "distributed cooperative computing software package".The main research work includes:1. According to the features of sharing information , sharing resource and cooperative work in cooperative design, and the autonomy and cooperation of agents in distributed environment, reflects the development of the information processing system to the constructions of the multi-agent system,and presents an approach to construct cooperative system.It takes the autonomous entities (including persons, tools and software agents) in a cooperative design system as agents; determines the basic members, cooperative relations and functions in the multi-agent system depending on the design task and the relationships of them; describes the dynamic change of the design process via event, organizes multiple agents depending on behavior restriction and makes them cooperate in a sharing environment.2. The thesis puts forward a kind of realizable structure of software agent for cooperative design. It regards an agent as a software main frame plus I/O components, communication components and execution components, and...