Agent-Based Product Configuration: towards Generalized Consensus Seeking
This paper will present an evolution of a fuzzy agent based platform which performed products configuration. As a first step, we used the notion of consensus to establish robust results at the end of the configuration process. We implemented the concept of “generalized consensus” which implied the consideration of consensuses from the beginning, in this way robust data are treated during the entire process and the final result enables the designer to distinguish the robust components and flexible ones in a set of configurations.
Keywords: Fuzzy Agents, Consensus, Consensus Seeking, Agent-Based Design, Collaborative and Distributive Design.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Benoit Beroule
Benoît Beroule received the B.S. degree from the department of Computer Science of University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM). He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Laboratory IRTES-SeT (Systems and Transports) of UTBM.
Alain-Jérôme Fougères
Alain-Jérôme Fougères holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Technology of Compiègne - France (1997). He is a Professor of Computer Science at ESTA and he conducts his research at ESTA-Lab. He is also associated with the Laboratory IRTES-M3M of University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard. Initially, his areas of interests and his scientific contributions were: 1) assistance to the redaction of formal specifications, where problems focused on the natural language processing, the knowledge representation, and the techniques of formal specifications; and 2) design of agent-based systems, in particular architecture, interactions, communication, and cooperation problems. Over the last ten years, his research has focused on agent-based mediation for cooperative work.
Egon Ostrosi
Egon Ostrosi holds a Ph.D. from the University “Louis Pasteur” of Strasbourg (ULP), and is currently Associate Professor in the Laboratory of Mecatronics3M (M3M) of IRTES at the University of Technology of Belfort – Montbéliard. His current research concerns integrated mechanical product design and modeling, knowledge engineering and its application in mechanical design, and concurrent engineering. He has been actively involved with the development of methods for concurrent product design, CAD product modeling, product configuration, and collaborative and distributed design process.
Benoit Beroule
Benoît Beroule received the B.S. degree from the department of Computer Science of University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM). He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Laboratory IRTES-SeT (Systems and Transports) of UTBM.
Alain-Jérôme Fougères
Alain-Jérôme Fougères holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Technology of Compiègne - France (1997). He is a Professor of Computer Science at ESTA and he conducts his research at ESTA-Lab. He is also associated with the Laboratory IRTES-M3M of University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard. Initially, his areas of interests and his scientific contributions were: 1) assistance to the redaction of formal specifications, where problems focused on the natural language processing, the knowledge representation, and the techniques of formal specifications; and 2) design of agent-based systems, in particular architecture, interactions, communication, and cooperation problems. Over the last ten years, his research has focused on agent-based mediation for cooperative work.
Egon Ostrosi
Egon Ostrosi holds a Ph.D. from the University “Louis Pasteur” of Strasbourg (ULP), and is currently Associate Professor in the Laboratory of Mecatronics3M (M3M) of IRTES at the University of Technology of Belfort – Montbéliard. His current research concerns integrated mechanical product design and modeling, knowledge engineering and its application in mechanical design, and concurrent engineering. He has been actively involved with the development of methods for concurrent product design, CAD product modeling, product configuration, and collaborative and distributed design process.
