Conversation-based support for requirement definition by a Personal Design Assistant

A Personal Design Assistant (PDA) is an agent program that supports a designer whose role is to support an engineer who defines design specifications during system development. The PDA is a multi-agent system consisting of a conversation agent, design skill agents, a user model, an ontology, a planning function to support, communication and collaboration with other agents and designers. The PDA is designed, based on the model of PA (Personal Assistant) provided by the OMAS framework. In this paper, we propose a conceptual design of a PDA conversation-based support for a process of requirement definition of a system development.

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