Infomaster: an information integration system
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The TSIMMIS Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: next generation information technologies and systems
Distributed constraint satisfaction: foundations of cooperation in multi-agent systems
Distributed constraint satisfaction: foundations of cooperation in multi-agent systems
Product Configuration Frameworks-A Survey
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Configuring Large Systems Using Generative Constraint Satisfaction
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Distributed Configuration as Distributed Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction
Proceedings of the 14th International conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: engineering of intelligent systems
A Fixpoint Definition of Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction
CP '99 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Conceptual modelling for configuration: A description logic-based approach
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
A classification and constraint-based framework for configuration
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Towards a generic model of configuraton tasks
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Intelligent Interfaces for Distributed Web-Based Product and Service Configuration
WI '01 Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence: Research and Development
Decision-making coordination in collaborative product configuration
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Decision-making coordination and efficient reasoning techniques for feature-based configuration
Science of Computer Programming
An approach to efficient product configuration in software product lines
SPLC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond
Multi-ontology based system for distributed configuration
CSCWD'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I
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Shorter product cycles, lower prices, and the production of highly variant products tailored to the customer needs are the main reasons for the proceeding success of product configuration systems. However, today's product configuration systems are designed for solving local configuration tasks only, although the economic development towards webs of highly specialized solution providers demands for distributed problem solving functionality. In this paper we motivate the integration of several configurators and give a formal definition of the distributed configuration task based on a logic theory of configuration. Furthermore, we present a basic architecture comprising several configuration agents and propose an algorithm for cooperation between distributed configuration systems that ensures correctness and completeness of configuration results.