Multi-agent hierarchical negotiation based on augmented price schedules decomposition for distributed design

作者：Lin Yung I; Tien Kai Wen; Chu Chih Hsing^*

来源：Computers in Industry, 2012, 63(6): 597-609.

DOI：10.1016/j.compind.2012.02.017

• Price schedules decomposition
• Distributed design
• Reliability allocation
• Negotiation
• Multi-agent technologies

This paper presents a multi-agent negotiation mechanism for distributed design based on price schedules decomposition. The mechanism allows self-interested collaborators to jointly make design decisions for the benefit of an overall design task without disclosing individual objectives or rationales. This work extended a price schedules decomposition algorithm originally developed as a bi-level approach into a hierarchical decomposition algorithm by introducing augmented price schedules. Integrated with multi-agent technologies, the negotiation protocol, and strategy derived from the hierarchical algorithm realize a secure environment for automating distributed engineering design. A test scenario of distributed reliability allocation in complex system development validates the proposed mechanism.

• 出版日期2012-8
• 单位清华大学