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A Negotiation Model to Support Material Selection in Concurrent Design

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Based upon empirical studies, this paper describes a negotiation model to support materials selection by design teams using concurrent design methodologies. The model is realised in a tool that supports designers in this task. Given a list of materials currently proposed, similar alternatives are offered to individual designers based upon both shared and private representations. Fuzzy measures of similarity are used to identify possible counter proposals. A fuzzy measure of value is used to rank these. Conventional negotiation protocols from economics or game theory did not correspond well to the negotiation behaviour of designers. Currently, the human user remains responsible for the communication of any proposal he or she wishes to make, and for the supporting argumentation.

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  1. Bartec Systems, Barnsley, UK

    Robin Barker

  2. Environmental Business Network, University of Sheffield, 5 Palmerston Road, Sheffield, S10 2TE, UK

    Leigh Holloway

  3. Sheffield Hallam University, Pond Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK

    Anthony Meehan

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  1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Intelligent Manufacturing and Business Processes Computer and Automation Research Institute, Kende utca 13-17, 1111, Budapest, Hungary

    László Monostori  & József Váncza  & 

  2. Department of Computer Science 601 University Drive, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666-4616, USA

    Moonis Ali

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Barker, R., Holloway, L., Meehan, A. (2001). A Negotiation Model to Support Material Selection in Concurrent Design. In: Monostori, L., Váncza, J., Ali, M. (eds) Engineering of Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2070. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45517-5_77

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