Towards Distributed Configuration

Crime Prevention in Urban Design: towards Space Syntax Approach as a Quantitative Analytic Modeling of Qualitative Issue of Security (Based on Spatial Configuration)

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 ...

Dynamic configuration and collaborative scheduling in supply chains based on scalable multi-agent architecture

Due to diversified and frequently changing demands from customers, technological advances and global competition, manufacturers rely on collaboration with their business partners to share costs, risks and expertise. How to take advantage of advancement of technologies to effectively support operations and create competitive advantage is critical for manufacturers to survive. To respond to these...

Towards XML-based Configuration Management for Distributed Systems

Today, we are seeing more distributed systems on enterprise networks and on the Internet. It is difficult to effectively manage configuration information of these distributed systems because they are distributed in nature and they may be deployed with different software components and running on heterogeneous computing platforms. However, a centralized configuration management system for distri...

Distributed generative CSP approach towards multi-site product configuration

Today’s configurators are centralized systems and do not allow manufacturers to cooperate on-line for offer-generation or sales-configuration. However, supply chain integration of configurable products requires the cooperation of the configuration systems from the different manufacturers that jointly offer solutions to customers. As a consequence, there is a business requirement for methods tha...