Configuration

  • Authors:

  • Deborah L. McGuinness

  • Affiliations:

  • Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Gates Building 2A, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

  • Venue:
  • The description logic handbook
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Description Logics are used to solve a wide variety of problems, with configuration applications being some of the largest and longest-lived. There is concrete, commercial evidence that shows that DL-based configurators have been successfully fielded for over a decade. Additionally, it appears that configuration applications have a number of characteristics that make them well-suited to DL-based solutions. This chapter will introduce the problem of configuration, describe some requirements of configuration applications that make them candidates for DL-based solutions, show examples of these requirements in a configuration example, and introduce the largest and longest-lived family of DL-based configurators.