Multi-disciplinary team cooperative work based on contract net in concurrent engineering environment

摘要

How to facilitate cooperation of multi-disciplinary teams is a key problem in concurrent engineering(CE) environment. In this paper, we discuss this problem from non-technology enabling sub-system aspects. A kind of task coordination architecture based on contract net is proposed to facilitate the cooperation of multi-disciplinary teams. The major elements of this paper include decomposition and allocation of tasks, organizational structure, task coordination relationship, mechanism of organization and management and communication etc..