A distributed generative CSP framework for multi-site product configuration

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

Volumn 5180 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 131-146

  Zanker, Markus ^a   Jannach, Dietmar ^b   Silaghi, Marius C ^c   Friedrich, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANUFACTURE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CONFIGURATION SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED CSP; LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; MULTI-SITE; OFFER GENERATIONS; PRODUCT CONFIGURATION;

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS;

EID: 57849113966     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85834-8_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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