A Human-Machine Cooperative Design Support System in Multi-Agent System Framework

摘要

We aim at extending our previous approach for cooperative problem solving among computational agents toward a human-machine cooperative design system in the framework of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). We extend our previous method, which focused solely on computational agents, to allow the interactive modification of evaluation measures in cooperative design through the communication among the agents by re-scaling relative weights of the measures. To prevent the ramification of the modification by human designers, we also propose a method for supporting consensus building between human and computational agents based on Analytic Hierarchy Process. The proposed method has been implemented and evaluated through the experiments for the cooperative design of a micro satellite in MAS. The results are promising compared with our previous method and suggest the effectiveness of the proposed method.