Product configuration frameworks - A survey

IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 42-49

  Sabin, Daniel ^a,b,c   Weigel, Rainer ^b,d,e,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e St Gallen Sch of Engineering   (Switzerland)

^f Schindler Elevator Company   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^h German Computer Society   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPETITION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

LOGIC BASED SYSTEMS; MODEL BASED REASONING; PRODUCT CONFIGURATIONS; RESOURCE BASED METHODS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032114898     PISSN: 10947167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5254.708432     Document Type: Review

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