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Distributed Cognition Learning in Collaborative Civil Engineering Projects Management
Francisco GrimaldoJaume Domínguez Faussubject
NegotiationWork (electrical)Order (exchange)Computer scienceMulti-agent systemParallel designmedia_common.quotation_subjectCivil engineeringSocially distributed cognitionDomain (software engineering)Diversity (business)media_commondescription
Due to the diversity and complexity of its projects, the Civil Engineering domain has historically encompassed very heterogeneous disciplines. From the beginning, any Civil Infrastructure project is systematically divided into smaller subprojects in order to reduce or isolate the overall complexity. However, as a parallel design work, these subdesigns may experience divergences which often lead to design conflicts when they are merged back to the global design. If a high-quality design is desired, these conflicts need to be detected and solved.We present a Multiagent system able to manage these design conflicts by detecting them, by assisting the engineers in the negotiation of solutions, and finally by learning how to solve future similar problems. The advantage of the system is that what is learned is not one individual’s knowledge but the project’s global distributed cognition.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-01 |