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A Multi-agent Framework for Cost Estimation of Product Design

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Highlights of Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection (PAAMS 2016)

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This paper presents the use of a multi-agent framework for evaluating parameters of new products and estimating cost of product design. Companies often develop many new product projects simultaneously. A limited budget of research and development imposes selection of the most promising projects. The evaluation of new product projects requires cost estimation and involves many agents that analyse the customer requirements and information acquired from an enterprise system, including the fields of sales and marketing, research and development, and manufacturing. The model of estimating product design cost is formulated in terms of a constraint satisfaction problem. The illustrative example presents the use of a fuzzy neural network to identify the relationships and estimate cost of product design.

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Presented research works are partially carried out under the project – status activities of Faculty of Engineering Management DS 2016 Poznan University of Technology.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland

    Marcin Relich

  2. Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Pawel Pawlewski

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  3. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

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  4. University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland

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  5. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  6. Department of Informatics, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  7. Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  8. Inst. Comp. Sci. & Bus. Info. Sys. (ICB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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Relich, M., Pawlewski, P. (2016). A Multi-agent Framework for Cost Estimation of Product Design. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 616. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39387-2_7

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