Toward Design as Collaboration

In design, multiple disparate goals must be addressed simultaneously. It is the thesis of this work that problems in two-dimensional layout design can be solved by collaboration among single-goal, intelligent agents, each responsible for a class of objects and responsive to explicit metrics. In this model, each agent produces conflict-free designs for its own class of objects, and then, when objects conflict with each other in the combined design, the agents that own those objects address the conflicts. A limitedly rational implementation demonstrates its efficacy for park layout design in the two-dimensional plane. Two-dimensional Layout Design Design problems typically entail large search spaces and multiple, ill-defined goal tests (Goel and Pirolli 1989). As a result, design has been regarded as a domain (CAD/ CAM) in which computers assist people rather than work alone. This paper's primary contributions are a model for autonomous two-dimensional layout design as collaboraCop...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Susan L. Epstein
• Keywords: AAAI 1998, Autonomous Two-dimensional Layout, Intelligent Agents, Table 1, Two-dimensional Layout Design