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A study of argumentation-based negotiation in collaborative design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2010

Yan Jin  and
Mathieu Geslin
Yan Jin
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Mathieu Geslin
Affiliation:
Honda R&D Americas, Torrance, California, USA
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Abstract

Engineering of complex systems often involves teamwork. The members of an engineering team must work together to identify design requirements, explore design spaces, generate design alternatives, and make both interactive and joint design decisions. Because of the latency of information and the disciplinary differences, it is often a difficult process for the members of a team to reach agreements when needed. Negotiation has been studied as a method for facilitating information exchange, mutual understanding, and joint decision making. An argumentation-based negotiation approach was previously proposed by the authors to support collaborative engineering design. In this paper, we present an experiment study that was conducted to evaluate the impact of this negotiation support approach on the process and the outcome of collaborative design. The results of the experiment show both positive effects and limitations of the approach.

Keywords

ArgumentationCollaborative DesignExperiment StudyNegotiation
Type
Special Issue Articles
Information
AI EDAM , Volume 24 , Issue 1: Design Computing and Cognition , February 2010 , pp. 35 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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