The design approach to DAI system eased on software engineering

As more challenging applications are automated, cooperative problem solving will be an important paradigm for the next generation of intelligent industrial systems. A key problem with using it in the engineering domain is the development of a structured design method. The authors suggest a design approach for a distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) system based on software engineering, describe the detailed design process of a real DAI system through the example of a simulative transformer substation system (STSS), and present some key problems and techniques of DAI in the engineering domain, such as system modeling, task decomposition and allocation, cooperative mechanism, etc