Knowledge-based Configuration: From Research to Business Cases by Alexander Felfernig

by Alexander Felfernig

"Knowledge-based From Research to Business Cases" represents the first time that corporate and academic worlds have been detailed side by side, integrating research and commercial benefits of knowledge-based representation. Foundational interdisciplinary material is provided for researchers and developers as they compose models from increasingly complex products and services.Knowledge-based configuration incorporates knowledge representation formalisms and captures complex product models and reasoning methods to create intelligent interactive behavior for users. A profitable application of artificial intelligence, knowledge-based configuration has been successful in a wide range of business applications, from industrial to automotive to health, and continues to be researched in academia.The book provides case studies, the latest research and a new graphical language to increase understanding of knowledge-based configuration. With this toolkit, you can push the boundaries of what your configurators can do, enabling companies and customers to thrive.An overview of knowledge-based configuration technologies with the benefit of real-world case studies from SAP, Siemens, Oracle, IBM, and othersDetails the commercial benefits of knowledge-based configuration to business sectors from industrial to automotive, as well as knowledge acquisition methodsPresented in a new graphical language mapped to UML/OCL and completely illustrated in an appendix

Hardcover

First published November 1, 2013