Cold fusion uses a catalyzed configuration change to replace plasma fusion's need for high energy particle collisions.1 In radiationless cold fusion the configuration change is a coherent partitioning of deuterons into fractional pieces within a set of potential wells provided by a hosting lattice.2 The coherently partitioned matter distribution is a Bloch wave function. Alpha addition transmut...

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The main configuration scenarios occurring in the domain of technical products and systems are consistency checking, completing a partial configuration, reconfiguration of an inconsistent configuration and finding the best knowledge base for future reconfigurations. This paper presents OOASP a framework for the description of object-oriented product configurators using answer set programming an...

A product line is a set of products and features with constraints on which subsets are available. Numerous configurators have been made available by product line vendors on the internet, in which procurers can experiment with the different options, e.g. how the selection of one product or feature entails or precludes the selection of another product or feature. We explore an approach to configu...

Configuration design is an important strategy for achieving rapid mass customization in product development. Constraint satisfaction programming (CSP) is known to provide a general tool for configuring a product (i.e., configuration design in this case). Product life cycle management (PLM) is an important strategy for management of products. Integration of these two strategies is a very promisi...

Web-based product configurators are enablers of the concept of mass customization, as they allow customers to transform their perceptions regarding a desired product into a precise product specification. The customer chooses option values within set limits that best match his configuration goal. In this paper we present an approach to extend the traditional product configuration process with a ...

The paper demonstrates that product configuration applications fit naturally the framework of answer set programming. It is shown that product configuration knowledge can be represented systematically and compactly using a logic program type rule language such that the answers of a configuration task, the configurations, correspond to the models of the rule representation.. The paper pr.es.~nts...

This paper argues for the importance of product configuration data management during the operational life phase of modern, software intensive, reconfigurable and networked mechatronic products. The state-of-practice of the configuration management of mechatronic products is presented first. The challenges in configuration management that the machine industry is facing are then identified empiri...

This paper emphasizes on the enhancement of web-based selling technology for complex products. The approach of the EC-funded CAWICOMS1 project is twofold: provision of technologies both for customeradaptive Web-interfaces for the configuration of mass-customized products as well as for the integration of configuration systems along the supply-chain. Within this paper we first motivate the deman...