CoDesign - a collaborative pattern design system based on agent

For effective collaborative working between the parties in a pattern design project team, it is essential that a highly-efficient and feasible cooperative platform is available. This paper presents an agent-based infrastructure for the automated collaborative design of textile industrial patterns. Cooperative awareness among distributed participants is one of the most important issues associated with collaborative pattern design. Several techniques based on awareness intensity management are proposed. In addition, the Pattern Knowledge Library enables intelligent design on the World Wide Web and thus greatly enhances the functionality of computer-supported cooperative design (CSCD). This prototype is intended to serve as a useful cooperative system for designers and should allow faster, better and more economic collaborative design of patterns.