...Lindsay Hanna Landry; Jonathan Cagan Cooperation and reward of strategic agents in an evolutionary optimization framework is explored in order to better solve engineering design problems. Agents in this Evolutionary Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) framework rely on one another to better...

... 05 2011 decision making game theory multi-agent systems pricing product design profitability retailing The revenue that can be generated by a new product design is not only closely related to its design features but also dependent on the heterogeneous customer preferences...

.... In this work, a taxonomy of heuristic optimization approaches is introduced and used to motivate a new approach called protocol-based multi-agent systems. This approach is found to produce final solutions of much higher quality when its implementation includes the use of multiple search protocols...

..., uses design of experiments to determine preference within the design space, and then automatically generates appropriate form design concepts through a MAS. shape grammar multiagent system preference function automated product form design CAD grammars multi-agent systems product...

... ( 1 ). aerospace industry CAD large-scale systems mechanical engineering computing multi-agent systems organisational aspects 28 11 2007 02 12 2008 26 01 2009 Prior to beginning the actual design process, agents’ memory matrices—used in the algorithm to dictate...

... discuss the extensions to our preliminary work that will make our framework useful to the design and optimization community. 03 06 2008 18 09 2008 15 12 2008 design engineering multi-agent systems travelling salesman problems True engineering design is a cooperative...