Author(s)

Quan LIU, Xingran CUI, Xiuyin HU

School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China.

Collaborative design can create added value in the design and production process by bringing the benefit of team work and cooperation in a concurrent and coordinated manner. However, distributed design knowledge and product data make the design process cumbersome. To facilitate collaborative design, an agent-based intelligent CAD platform is implemented. Intelligent agents are applied to the collaborative design. Adopting the JADE platform as framework, an intelligent collaborative design software (Co-Cad platform for short) is designed. In this platform, every man, design software, management software, equipment and resource is regarded as a single agent, the legacy design can be abstracted to be interaction between agents. Multimedia technology is integrated into Co-Cad platform, communication and identity authentication among collaborative designers from different areas are more convenient. Finally, an instance of collaborative design using Co-Cad platform is presented.

Agent, Co-Cad Platform, Collaborative Design, JADE, Multimedia Technology

Q. LIU, X. CUI and X. HU, "An Agent-Based Multimedia Intelligent Platform for Collaborative Design," International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol. 1 No. 3, 2008, pp. 260-265. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2008.13032.