Expert systems for configuration at Digital: XCON and beyond
Communications of the ACM
Ontologies for integrating engineering applications
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
Programming in PROLOG
The Role of Configuration Knowledge in the Business Process
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Product Configuration Frameworks-A Survey
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Sales Configuration in Business Processes
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies: where is their meeting point?
Data & Knowledge Engineering
The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
Towards a general ontology of configuration
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
An effective customization procedure with configurable standard models
Decision Support Systems
An overview of knowledge‐based configuration
AI Communications
Jess in action: rule-based systems in java
Jess in action: rule-based systems in java
Semantic interoperability in building design: Methods and tools
Computer-Aided Design
Applying case-based reasoning for product configuration in mass customization environments
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
OWL rules: A proposal and prototype implementation
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Ontological product modeling for collaborative design
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Intelligent configuration of social support networks around depressed persons
AIME'11 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Artificial intelligence in medicine
An ontology-based framework for collaborative maintenance planning
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part I
Reasoning over OWL/SWRL ontologies under CWA and UNA for industrial applications
AI'11 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Automatically generating assembly tolerance types with an ontology-based approach
Computer-Aided Design
A semantic knowledge management system for laminated composites
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Beyond physical product configuration --Configuration in unusual domains
AI Communications - Intelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases
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Product configuration is a crucial means to implement the mass customization paradigm by assembling a set of customizable components to satisfy both customers' needs and technical constraints. With the aim of enabling efficient and effective development of product configuration systems by reusing configuration knowledge, an ontology-based approach to modeling product configuration knowledge is presented in this paper. The ontology-based product configuration models are hierarchically organized. At the lower level, a configuration meta-model is defined. Based on this meta-model, domain-specific configuration knowledge can be derived by reusing or inheriting the classes or relations in the meta-model. Configuration models are formalized using OWL (Ontology Web Language), an ontology representation language developed by W3C. As a result, configuration models have well-defined semantics due to the logic semantics of OWL, making it possible to automatically detect inconsistencies of configuration knowledge bases. Furthermore, configuration constraints are represented in SWRL, a rule language based on OWL. Finally, actual configuration processes are carried out using JESS, a rule engine for the Java platform, by mapping OWL-based configuration facts and SWRL-based configuration constraints into JESS facts and JESS rules, respectively. The proposed methodology is illustrated with an example for configuring the ranger drilling machine.