WeCoTin - A practical logic-based sales configurator
WeCoTin - A practical logic-based sales configurator
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WeCoTin - 实用的基于逻辑的销售配置器
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10.3233/aic-2012-0547
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2013
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通讯作者：
T. Soininen
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作者：
J. Tiihonen;Mikko Heiskala;A. Anderson;T. Soininen
可配置产品可以有效地满足客户的个性化需求，实现大规模定制的理想。配置器提供的IT支持能够有效地、无错误地为单个客户调整此类产品。在众多的配置器中，很少有人对几个产品领域的建模效果和性能进行了评估，也很少有评估方法存在。应用设计科学的方法，我们描述和评估了一种新的配置器，称为WeCoTin。WeCoTin基于高级面向对象的建模概念和相应的建模语言，具有清晰的形式语义。WeCoTin包括一个半可视化的建模工具和一个基于web的配置工具。它应用了一个推理引擎，它遵循基于逻辑的答案集编程范例。提出了一种描述配置模型的方法，并将其应用于描述20多个实际配置模型，并评估建模机制的效用。此外，使用开发的方法对实际产品的性能进行了评估，并发现是适当的。
Configurable products can realize the ideal of mass-customization by satisfying individual customer requirements efficiently. IT support provided by configurators enables adapting such products for individual customers efficiently and without errors. Few of numerous configurators have been evaluated with respect to modeling efficacy and performance on several product domains, and few evaluation methods exist. Applying the Design Science method, we describe and evaluate a novel configurator called WeCoTin. WeCoTin is based on a high-level object oriented modeling conceptualization and corresponding modeling language with clear formal semantics. WeCoTin consists of a semi-visual Modeling Tool and a web-based Configuration Tool. It applies an inference engine that follows the logic-based answer set programming paradigm. A way to characterize configuration models is proposed and applied to characterize over 20 real-world configuration models, and to evaluate utility of modeling mechanisms. Furthermore, performance is evaluated with real-world products using a developed method, and found adequate.