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A new theory of engineering design known as A-Design is introduced that models the workings of realistic engineering design in a complex adaptive system of interacting software agents. The methodology is general enough to be used on a variety of search problems, however the motivation behind the research is to create design configurations. The system constructs meaningful designs from a catalog of electromechanical components based on a variety of user-defined objectives while accom—modating changes that might occur in the focus of the problem.
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Campbell, M.I., Cagan, J., Kotovsky, K. (1998). A-Design: Theory and Implementation of an Adaptive, Agent-Based Method of Conceptual Design. In: Gero, J.S., Sudweeks, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Design ’98. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5121-4_30
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