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ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Expert systems for configuration at Digital: XCON and beyond
Communications of the ACM
Object-oriented modeling and design
Object-oriented modeling and design
A method for automatic rule derivation to support semantic query optimization
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
The Unified Modeling Language reference manual
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A Formal Semantics for Object Model Diagrams
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Constraint Diagrams: A Step Beyond UML
TOOLS '99 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
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WIFT '98 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Industrial Strength Formal Specification Techniques
Generative constraint-based configuration of large technical systems
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
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SyDeR—System design for reusability
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
A classification and constraint-based framework for configuration
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
An overview of knowledge‐based configuration
AI Communications
Towards a generic model of configuraton tasks
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
IJCAI'93 Proceedings of the 13th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence - Volume 1
Core meta-modelling semantics of UML: the pUML approach
UML'99 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on The unified modeling language: beyond the standard
Introducing Context-Based Constraints
FASE '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
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SELMAS '05 Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Analysis and design of physical and social contexts in multi-agent systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
The impact of product configurators on lead times in engineering-oriented companies
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
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Lower prices, shorter product cycles, and the customer individual production of highly variant products are the main reasons for the success of product configuration systems in various application domains (telecommunication industry, automotive industry, computer industry). In this paper we show how to employ UML in order to design complex configuration knowledge bases. We introduce the notion of contextual diagrams in order to cope with the intrinsic complexity of configuration knowledge. Since domain experts mostly think in terms of contexts, this approach leads to a more intuitive way of modeling configuration knowledge.