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Evaluating alternate connection designs through multiagent negotiation

Designer fabricator interpreter system

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Abstract

The Designer Fabricator Interpreter (DFI) is a knowledge-based system that addresses the lack of interaction among structural designers, fabricators and erectors in dealing with beam-to-column connections. Current research includes the development of a distributed problem-solving architecture in which the participants are modeled as semi-autonomous computer agents which reason from their own specific viewpoints while evaluating a connection. During the evaluation process, agents propose alternative connections for consideration which may require a negotiation process among the agents. If they cannot resolve the problem, an arbitrator agent is enlisted to help the conflicting agents reach an agreement. Potentially “better” alternate connection configurations along with reasons behind the choices are presented from the viewpoints of design, fabrication and erection.

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  1. Owego Laboratory, MD 0210, IBM Corporation/FSD, Route 17C, 13827, Owego, NY, USA

    Keith J. Werkman

  2. Bechtel Corporation, 50 Beale Street, P.O. Box 193965, 94119-3965, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Marcello Barone

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, Fritz Laboratory #13, 18015, Bethlehem, PA, USA

    John Isman Wilson

  4. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Packard Laboratory #19, Lehigh University, 18015, Bethlehem, PA, USA

    Donald J. Hillman

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Werkman, K.J., Barone, M., Wagaman, S.J., Wilson, J.I., Hillman, D.J. (1991). Evaluating alternate connection designs through multiagent negotiation. In: Sriram, D., Logcher, R., Fukuda, S. (eds) Computer-Aided Cooperative Product Development. WCACPD 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 492. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014284

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