Title :
Cooperating configuration agents supporting supply chain integration of customizable products
Author :
Felfernig, A. ; Friedrich, G. ; Jannach, D. ; Zanker, M.
Author_Institution :
Isnt. fur Wirtschaftsinf. und Anwendungssyst., Klagenfurt Univ., Austria
Abstract :
The integration of configuration systems for supporting the supply-chain management of configurable products and services is still an open research issue. Current configurator approaches are designed for solving local configuration problems, but there is still no support for the integration of different configuration systems. In order to facilitate cooperative configuration, we employ configuration agents that are capable of managing requests and posting configuration subtasks to remote agents. For integrating the different knowledge representation formalisms of the configuration agents, we construct common ontologies by employing broadly-used configuration domain-specific modelling concepts
Keywords :
integrated software; knowledge representation; logistics data processing; multi-agent systems; common ontologies; configurable services; configuration domain-specific modelling concepts; configuration subtask posting; configuration systems integration; configurator approaches; cooperating configuration agents; cooperative configuration; customizable products; knowledge representation formalisms; remote agents; request management; supply chain integration; supply-chain management; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Communication industry; Computer industry; Engines; Ontologies; Supply chains; Telecommunications; Tellurium; Unified modeling language;
Conference_Titel :
MultiAgent Systems, 2000. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0625-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMAS.2000.858487
