"KICAD: A Knowledge Infrastructure for Collaborative and Agent-based Design"

5/21/1999: [time not recorded]
[location not recorded]

Abstract: Engineering design problems are inherently complex and involve many highly coupled sub-tasks that require multiple designers to work together collaboratively. Because of the limitation of current knowledge and technologies, collaborative design in practice is still highly experience-based. Our on-going research "building knowledge infrastructure for collaborative design" attempts to develop a theoretical framework to model collaborative design and an agent-based technology, called KICAD, to support design and collaboration. In KICAD, each designer has an intelligent agent associated. The agents actively work with their designers to enrich their "knowledge" about the tasks, and provide intelligent and timely support to their designers when needed. This talk will provide an overview of the KICAD research program and describes the current research achievements. Dr. Yan Jin is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California and the Associate Director of the USC IMPACT Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree in Naval Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1988. Since then, Dr. Jin has done research on agent-based systems, distributed problem solving, organization modeling, and collaborative engineering. Prior to joining USC faculty in the Fall of 1996, Dr. Jin worked as a senior research scientist at Stanford University for 5 years. His current research interests include design process modeling, agent-based collaborative engineering support, and computational organization modeling. Dr. Jin is a receipient of 1998 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

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