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Recently, the user-orientated design used in product/service innovative process has been received considerable attention from both academia and industry. Products considering the user-orientated design are able to meet the users' needs more effectively. Conventionally, the user-oriented design method adopts the sticky note to document the inconvenient experiences from brainstorming or observation...
In the recent decade, concurrent new product development (CNPD) has been recognized as an effective approach for eliminating the long and costly product development cycle. CNPD needs multi-disciplinary workgroups to communicate and cooperate in a computer network environment, particularly a multi-agent system (MAS) environment. Recently, several MAS development approaches for CNPD cooperation have...
Recently, several multi-agent system (MAS) development approaches have been proposed and constituted on a goal basis to support the cooperation in a concurrent new product development (CNPD) environment. However, in a CNPD process, different cooperation requirements take place at different stages and need different workgroups to be involved. The goal-driven MAS development approaches only provide...
This paper presents a multi-agent system (MAS) framework developed on the design chain operations reference-model (DCOR) to support the cooperation between the original design manufacturer (ODM) company and its suppliers. The framework is composed of three phases. Under the consideration of design chain goals, the DC operations analysis phase plans and models the DC processes with DCOR standard notations...
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