Modeling concepts for VLSI CAD objects
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Version modeling concepts for computer-aided design databases
SIGMOD '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Type evolution in an object-oriented database
Research directions in object-oriented programming
Semantics and implementation of schema evolution in object-oriented databases
SIGMOD '87 Proceedings of the 1987 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Class modification in the GemStone object-oriented DBMS
OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Composite object support in an object-oriented database system
OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Version Support for Engineering Database Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
SIGMOD '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Schema evolution in object-oriented database systems
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Database support for evolving design objects
DAC '89 Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Toward a unified framework for version modeling in engineering databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Product Configuration Frameworks-A Survey
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Product Configurations - An Application for Prototype Object Approach
ECOOP '94 Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Special Issue: Configuration Design
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Towards a general ontology of configuration
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Using regression testing to analyze the impact of changes to variability models on products
Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1
Beyond physical product configuration --Configuration in unusual domains
AI Communications - Intelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases
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The increasing importance of better customisation of industrial products has led to development of configurable products. They allow companies to provide product families with a large number, typically millions of variants. Description and management of a large product variety within a single data model is challenging and requires a solid conceptual basis. This management differs from the schema evolution of traditional databases and the crucial distinction is the role of schema. For configurable products, the schema changes more frequently and more radically. In this paper, the characteristics that distinguish configurable products from traditional data modelling and management are investigated taking into account both the evolution of the schema and the instances. In this respect, the existing data modelling approaches and product data management systems are inadequate. Therefore, a new conceptual framework for product data management systems of configurable products that allows relatively independent evolution of schema and instances is proposed.