Conference proceeding
EXPLORING KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN A SOCIETY OF DESIGNERS
ICED 09 - THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN, VOL 8: DESIGN INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE, p99
01 Jan 2009
Abstract
This paper presents an approach to understanding designing that includes societal effects. We use a multi-agent system to simulate the interactions between two types of agents, those that produce designs and those that receive the designs proposed by the producers. Interactions occur when receiver agents give their opinion to the producers on the designs they produced. Based on this information some producers may choose to adopt knowledge from other producers and some receivers may choose to adopt knowledge from other receivers. As a result of this exchange of knowledge global behaviors emerge in the society of agents. We provide the results of preliminary experiments with the model in which we measure variations in the producers' successes, which allows us to observe and analyze some of these emergent behaviors under different knowledge transfer scenarios.
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- Title
- EXPLORING KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN A SOCIETY OF DESIGNERS
- Creators
- Andres Gomez de Silva Garza - Inst Tecnol Autonomo Mexico, Mexico City, DF, MexicoJohn S. Gero - George Mason University
- Contributors
- M N Bergendahl (Editor)M Grimheden (Editor)L Leifer (Editor)P Skogstad (Editor)W Chen (Editor)
- Publication Details
- ICED 09 - THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN, VOL 8: DESIGN INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE, p99
- Publisher
- Design Soc
- Number of pages
- 2
- Grant note
- CNS-0745390 / US National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000301955200010
- Other Identifier
- 991022202936304721