Solving large configuration problems efficiently by clustering the ConBaCon model

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1821, Issue , 2000, Pages 396-406

  John, Ulrich ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER FIRST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constraint programming; Constraint based configuration; Constraint based modeling; Industrial expert systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044519061     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45049-1_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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