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Agent-Based Personal Assistance in Collaborative Design Environments

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design II (CSCWD 2005)

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Computer systems have become more and more complex and users are overwhelmed with diverse tasks. Traditional online help systems cannot satisfy the users due to the lack of considering the dynamics and uncertainty. Agent technology is a promising approach to designing and developing intelligent user assistance systems, which benefit from agents’ flexibility and adaptability. This paper presents our recent work on the design and implementation of personal assistant agents in collaborative design environments. Based on the coordinated, intelligent, rational agent (CIR-Agent) model, a personal assistant is designed to adapt to the user and offer intelligent assistances. A collaboration mechanism based on user interest and behavior models is developed to help find appropriate collaborators.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

    Yue Zhang, Hamada Ghenniwa & Weiming Shen

  2. Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council Canada, London, Ontario, Canada

    Weiming Shen

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  1. Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada, 800 Collip Circle, N6G 4X8, London, ON, Canada

    Wei-ming Shen

  2. DSM Research Group, Department of Computer and Network Systems Coventry University, Coventry, UK

    Kuo-Ming Chao

  3. Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Zongkai Lin

  4. Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, 60205, Compiègne, France

    Jean-Paul A. Barthès

  5. Faculty of Engineering & Computing, Coventry University, Coventry, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

    Anne James

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Zhang, Y., Ghenniwa, H., Shen, W. (2006). Agent-Based Personal Assistance in Collaborative Design Environments. In: Shen, Wm., Chao, KM., Lin, Z., Barthès, JP.A., James, A. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design II. CSCWD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3865. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11686699_29

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