Configurators are widespread applications where users can tailor products (i.e. goods or services) to their needs by selecting options and setting parameter values. Constraints over these options exist to avoid building invalid products. Thus, when the user attempts to combine incompatible options, the configurator should raise an error and help the user repair her configuration, that is, chang...

Configuration of software product line is often a more laborious process than anticipated before. One major difficulty with software product line engineering is unavailability of standardize configuration process model that reduces the adverse affects of configuration related issues and problems such as requirements conflicts of same/multiple stages, complexity of conflicts resolution, adhoc te...

State-of-the-art product configuration enables companies to deliver customized products by selecting and assembling predefined configuration elements based on known relationships. This paper introduces an innovative concept, open configuration, in order to assist companies in configuring products that correspond exactly to what customers want. Superior to product configuration, open configurati...

by David Deitz This article describes how configuration software changes are commonly tracked and managed today using “paperbased” configuration audit trails, the shortcomings of the paper-based solutions, and a new automated computer-based configuration audit trail that addresses the shortcomings of the traditional paper-based solutions. Introduction esigning and implementing process control s...

In automotive industry, validation and maintenance of product configuration data is a complex task. Both orders from the customers and new product line designs from the R&D department are subject to a set of configuration rules to be satisfied. In this work, non-monotonic computational logic, Answer Set Programming in particular, is applied to industrial-scale automotive product configuration p...

Configuration assistants are tools for guiding the final user in simple configuration tasks, such as product assembling and customisation or study plans generation. For their wide availability, Web-based configuration assistants are valuable in fields such as electronic commerce and information services. We describe a general approach for building web-based configuration assistants: from a high...