Journal article
A Price-Based Negotiation Mechanism for Distributed Collaborative Design
IEEE transactions on engineering management, Vol.55(3), pp.496-507
08/2008
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2008.922629
Abstract
With an increased focus on collaborative design for success in global markets, there is a need for a negotiation mechanism for designs distributed over autonomous stakeholders. This paper utilizes the unit price of the design variables as a medium for negotiation between autonomous and self-interested design participants represented by design agents (DAs). An artificial agent - the facilitator agent (FA), maximizes the overall utility of the design as a function of the prices of the design variables, and guides the design toward global feasibility. By relating the FA's price space to the DAs' design space through price-variable curves, a negotiation platform is developed and tested. © 2008 IEEE.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Price-Based Negotiation Mechanism for Distributed Collaborative Design
- Creators
- Sandipan Ganguly - Expedia, Inc., Bellevue, WATeresa Wu - Arizona State UniversityJennifer Blackhurst - Iowa State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- IEEE transactions on engineering management, Vol.55(3), pp.496-507
- DOI
- 10.1109/TEM.2008.922629
- ISSN
- 0018-9391
- eISSN
- 1558-0040
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2008
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics; Bus Admin Graduate Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984201430302771
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