Toolsfor Workingwith Guidelines DJades-II A Multi-Agent User Interface DesignApproach with an Integrated AssessmentComponent Iris DJlli, I.lans-Jiirgen Hoffmann Supporting tools for incremental user interface design have to solve complex requirements: there are structural and semantic relations among all design objects best represented and resolved in an object-oriented class/instance lattice. Traditional architectural setups show difficulties to achieve a smooth, flexible integration of all these relations during the design process. There are rather different constraints to be applied during assessment of design decisions with respect to human factors know-how contained in guidelines. Immediate, active feedback of assessment results upon the design process is very desirable. Diades-II is a research project which aims to explore a new approach in a multi-agent setup with active assessment during design process. Architecture: integrated multi-agent, object-oriented, knowledge-based architecture. Characteristics Diades-II offers a new approach to integrate knowledge-based agents each of which is supporting and responsible for a specific task, e.g., design structuring or design assessment. This allows to separate the complex requirements mentioned above into task-centered requirements without heavy external references. There are two blackboard structures (see figure): one for holding design objects under responsibility of the so-called 'Design Editor' agent and for holding all kinds
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