企業面臨全球化壓力下，協同產品開發是維持競爭力的一項利器。於分散式的開發環境下，有效地整合跨地域、專業的設計團隊，是協同產品開發成功的關鍵。本研究提出一項創新的計算方法，利用資源分配最佳化的概念，發展分散式設計協商機制。應用經濟學供需平衡的觀點，改善價格列表分解演算法，使其能夠執行分散式且多階層的協商需求，並發揮資源使用偏好的特性，以滿足最佳化設計的目的。參考多層次與多參與者的產品開發協商過程，發展出層級與個別的方案式量化決策方式。配合智慧型多重代理人技術，不同階層的代理人，根據個別的決策模型，在資訊不完全通透的情況之下，透過自動化協商，達成成分散式最佳化設計，提高過程中反覆溝通與修正的效率。最後以實際的協同產品開發案例，針對複雜產品結構，其多階層或多目標設計等情境下，驗證提出方法的可行性，測試結果顯示，本研究有效提高設計鏈的整合性與溝通效率。

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