Configuring Reception

Distributed Configuring

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 ...

Configuring Boot Disks

Configuring Decision Tasks

In most cases, decision tasks are individual and different decision tasks require different combinations of features. Features can be, for instance, special preference visibilities during the decision process or specific heuristics that support the recommendation of decisions. To find the right features for a decision task it is essential to offer a corresponding configuration functionality. In...

Configuring Web Services

This paper examines the use of constraint-based configuration for the composition of Web Services. Web Services are widely assumed to represent the basis for the next generation of flexible distributed applications in B2B E-commerce, and the composition of complex applications from individuals services has attracted much attention. We show how this composition problem can be addressed at increa...

Configuring the Ubiquitous Home

This paper presents the development of a lightweight component model that allows user to manage the introduction and arrangement of new interactive services and devices in the home. Interaction techniques developed through userparticipation enable household members – rather than designers – to configure and reconfigure interactive devices and services to meet local needs. As part of this we hav...