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Modeling and solving technical product configuration problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2011

Andreas Falkner ,
Alois Haselböck ,
Gottfried Schenner  and
Herwig Schreiner
Andreas Falkner
Affiliation:
Siemens AG Österreich, Corporate Technology Central and Eastern Europe, Research and Technologies, Wien, Austria
Alois Haselböck
Affiliation:
Siemens AG Österreich, Corporate Technology Central and Eastern Europe, Research and Technologies, Wien, Austria
Gottfried Schenner
Affiliation:
Siemens AG Österreich, Corporate Technology Central and Eastern Europe, Research and Technologies, Wien, Austria
Herwig Schreiner
Affiliation:
Siemens AG Österreich, Corporate Technology Central and Eastern Europe, Research and Technologies, Wien, Austria
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Abstract

This paper describes and evaluates approaches to model and solve technical product configuration problems using different artificial intelligence methodologies. By means of a typical example, the benefits and limitations of different artificial intelligence methods are discussed and a flexible software architecture for integrating different solvers in a product configurator is proposed.

Keywords

Artificial IntelligenceConstraint Logic ProgrammingConstraint SatisfactionProduct ConfigurationSAT

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AI EDAM , Volume 25 , Issue 2: Configuration , May 2011 , pp. 115 - 129
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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