Design Intend Solving : Dynamic Composition Method for Innovative Design Based on Virtual Cloud Manufacturing Resource Generators

Abstract EN

Recently, there has been growing interest in composition of cloud manufacturing resources (CMRs).

Composition of CMRs is a feasible innovation to fulfill the user request while single cloud manufacturing resource cannot satisfy the functionality required by the user.

In this paper, we propose a new case-based approach for the composition of CMRs.

The basic idea of the present approach is to provide a computational framework for the composition of CMRs by imitating the common design method of reviewing past designs to obtain solution concepts for a new composite cloud manufacturing resource (CCMR).

A notion of virtual cloud manufacturing resource generators (VCMRGs) is introduced to conceptualize and represent underlying CCMRs contained in existing CCMRs.

VCMRGs are derived from previous CCMRs and serve as new conceptual building blocks for the composition of CMRs.

Feasible composite CMRs are generated by combining VCMRGs using some adaptation rules.

The reuse of prior CCMRs is accomplished via VCMRGs within the framework of case-based reasoning.

We demonstrate that the proposed approach yields lower execution time for fulfilling user request and shows good scalability.