Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Sales Configuration in Business Processes
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Konzepte zur praktischen Handhabbarkeit einer ATMS-basierten Problemlösung
Das PLAKON-Buch, Ein Expertensystemkern für Planungs- und Konfigurierungsaufgaben in technischen Domänen
Handbook of Constraint Programming (Foundations of Artificial Intelligence)
Handbook of Constraint Programming (Foundations of Artificial Intelligence)
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Variant Configuration with SAP
Variant Configuration with SAP
AAAI'92 Proceedings of the tenth national conference on Artificial intelligence
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Product configuration is a key technology, which enables businesses to deliver and deploy individualized products. In many cases, finding the optimal configuration solution for the user is a creative process that requires them to decide trade-offs between conflicting goals (multicriteria optimization problem). These problems are best supported by an interactive dialog that is managed by a dedicated software program (the configurator) that provides decision support. We illustrate this using a real example (configuration of a business software system). This productively used application makes the user aware of which choices are available in a given situation, provides assistance in resolving inconsistent choices and defaults, and generates explanations if desired. One of the key configurator components used to manage this is a truth maintenance system. We describe how this component is used and two novel extensions to it: methods for declarative handling of defaults (of varying strength) and the declarative handling of incompleteness. Finally, we summarize our experiences made during the implementation of this application and the pros and cons of declarative versus procedural approaches.