Expert systems for configuration at Digital: XCON and beyond
Communications of the ACM
PLAKON—an approach to domain-independent construction
IEA/AIE '89 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems - Volume 2
An object-oriented and constraint-based knowledge representation system for design object modeling
Proceedings of the sixth conference on Artificial intelligence applications
Exploiting Constraints for Domain Managing in CLP(FD)
FroCoS '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems
Automotive Product Documentation
Proceedings of the 14th International conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: engineering of intelligent systems
Configuration Knowledge Representation Using UML/OCL
UML '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language
Constrained-Based Problem Decomposition for a Key Configuration Problem
CP '98 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Structural Constraint-Based Modeling and Reasoning with Basic Configuration Cells
CP '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Towards Distributed Configuration
KI '01 Proceedings of the Joint German/Austrian Conference on AI: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Hierarchical Diagnosis of Large Configurator Knowledge Bases
KI '01 Proceedings of the Joint German/Austrian Conference on AI: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Preference programming: Advanced problem solving for configuration
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Configuration knowledge representations for Semantic Web applications
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Decomposition strategies for configuration problems
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Process configuration: Combining the principles of product configuration and process planning
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Consistency-based diagnosis of configuration knowledge bases
Artificial Intelligence
Dealing with incomplete knowledge on CLP(FD) variable domains
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
A CHR-based implementation of known arc-consistency
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
Solutions for product configuration management: An empirical study
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Constraint-based livespaces configuration management
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Distributed constraint satisfaction
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
A native ontology approach for semantic service descriptions
AOW '06 Proceedings of the second Australasian workshop on Advances in ontologies - Volume 72
Optimizing customer's selection for configurable product in B2C e-commerce application
Computers in Industry
A Distributed Generative CSP Framework for Multi-site Product Configuration
CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
Search heuristics for constraint-aided embodiment design
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Combinatorial optimization in system configuration design
Automation and Remote Control
A general datalog-based framework for tractable query answering over ontologies
Proceedings of the twenty-eighth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Solving set constraint satisfaction problems using ROBDDs
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Distributed constraint satisfaction
Parsing SBVR-Based Controlled Languages
MODELS '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Customising the interaction with configuration systems
UM'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on User modeling
Contextual diagrams as structuring mechanisms for designing configuration knowledge bases in UML
UML'00 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on The unified modeling language: advancing the standard
WISE'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Web information systems engineering
Query answering under non-guarded rules in datalog+/-
RR'10 Proceedings of the Fourth international conference on Web reasoning and rule systems
Advanced processing for ontological queries
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
A logical toolbox for ontological reasoning
ACM SIGMOD Record
Designing a tool for configuring an intelligent and flexible web-based system
KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part II
An intuitive tool for constraint based grammars
CSLP'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Constraint Solving and Language Processing
A general Datalog-based framework for tractable query answering over ontologies
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Towards more expressive ontology languages: The query answering problem
Artificial Intelligence
Programming and Computing Software
A declarative framework for work process configuration
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Reasoning about conditional constraint specification problems and feature models
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Adaptive attribute selection for configurator design via shapley value
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Configuration repair via flow networks
ISMIS'12 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Foundations of Intelligent Systems
Maintaining alternative values in constraint-based configuration
IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence
Taming the infinite chase: query answering under expressive relational constraints
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Beyond physical product configuration --Configuration in unusual domains
AI Communications - Intelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases
WeCoTin --A practical logic-based sales configurator
AI Communications - Intelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases
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One of the main difficulties with configuration problem solving lies in the representation of the domain knowledge because many different aspects, such as taxonomy, topology, constraints, resource balancing, component generation, etc., have to be captured in a single model. This model must be expressive, declarative, and structured enough to be easy to maintain and to be easily used by many different kind of reasoning algorithms. This paper presents a new framework where a configuration problem is considered both as a classification problem and as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). Our approach deeply blends concepts from the CSP and object-oriented paradigms to adopt the strengths of both. We expose how we have integrated taxonomic reasoning in the constraint programming schema. We also introduce new constrained variables with nonfinite domains to deal with the fact that the set of components is previously unknown and is constructed during the search for solution. Our work strongly focuses on the representation and the structuring of the domain knowledge, because the most common drawback of previous works is the difficulty to maintain the knowledge base that is due to a lack of structure and expressiveness of the knowledge representation model. The main contribution of our work is to provide an object-oriented model completely integrated in the CSP schema, with inheritance and classification mechanisms, and with specific arc consistency algorithms.