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Towards Distributed Configuration

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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.

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  1. Institut f. Wirtschaftsinformatik und, Anwendungssysteme Universität, Klagenfurt

    Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard E. Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach & Markus Zanker

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  1. RWTH Aachen, Theoretical Computer Science, Ahornstrasse 55, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Franz Baader

  2. Intelligent Systems Department, University of Leipzig, Computer Science Institute, Augustusplatz 10-11, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

    Gerhard Brewka

  3. Institute of Information Systems Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrasse 11, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Thomas Eiter

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Felfernig, A., Friedrich, G.E., Jannach, D., Zanker, M. (2001). Towards Distributed Configuration. In: Baader, F., Brewka, G., Eiter, T. (eds) KI 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45422-5_15

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