A muti-agent membrane computing technique for conceptual design

A novel multi-agent membrane computing technique is proposed. We provide a new membrane structure on graph to construct a multi-agent membrane system, which offers a new framework for collaboration and resources sharing among designers. The new design environment provides a tool to extend designer´s ideas with the help of communication rules of membrane. Shapes were generated and changed in membrane systems by rules base on the idea of genetic computing with operators crossover, mutation and selection. A multi-agent membrane system with rules is constructed in detail. Finally, a pipe design example is adopted to illustrate the entire design process, which also shows the great parallelism, less time-consuming and synchronization of MAMC.