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Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and
Manufacturing
Call For Papers: Special Issue on Configuration
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AIEDAM Special Issue, April 2003, Vol.17, No.2
Configuration
Edited by : Timo Soininen and Markus Stumptner
The configuration problem can be defined as the
composition of a complex product from a set of
pre-defined component types while taking into
account a set of well-defined restrictions on how
the component types can be combined.
Important real-world industrial configuration tasks
are encountered in marketing, manufacturing, and
design. They usually involve physical products, but
can also refer to financial or other services or
software. Due to their complexity, these tasks must
often be supported by dedicated software tools
(configurators). Efficient development and
maintenance of configurators require sophisticated
software development techniques.
AI methods are central to the development of
powerful configuration tools and to extending
configurator functionality. A wide range of AI
techniques such as constraint satisfaction (and its
extensions), description logics, logic programming,
and different specialized problem solving methods
are being used for this purpose.
Configuration, always a successful AI application
area, has recently attracted renewed research and
industrial interest, as demonstrated by the recent
workshops on configuration at AAAI'99, ECAI 2000,
and IJCAI'01. With the rise of E-business and
web-based configuration services, the field presents
many new and old challenges to researchers and
application developers.
The goal of this special issue is to demonstrate the
state of the art in configuration research. We
invite submissions describing novel research
involving AI in configuration-related areas,
including but not limited to:
* Configuration problems and models
* Methods for computing configurations and
supporting configuration tasks
* Configurators and configurator utilization
* Configuration and product design, product
data management, and production management
We hope to attract a balance of
* new and innovative papers on theoretical
issues, justified by practical concerns,
* practical applications applying a well-defined
theory or model, and
* thorough case studies highlighting practical
problems, needs and experiences, especially
long-term experience or new application
situations, e.g. in e-commerce.
Also welcome are articles that survey different
approaches and thoroughly analyze their differences
and commonalities.
Papers will be anonymously reviewed by at least two
reviewers in order to select papers for publication
in the special issue. Quality papers that are not
selected may be considered for standard publication
in AIEDAM.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 1st Mar 2002
Notification and reviews to authors: 30th May
2002
Revised version submission deadline: 15th Aug
2002
Final notification and re-reviews to all
authors: 5th Oct 2002
Final version submission deadline: 23rd Oct
2002
Publication: April 2003
Further details about submission etc. can be found
at the special issue information page:
http://www.soberit.hut.fi/~tso/aiedamconfig/
Please direct enquiries to the guest editors at
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Guest editors:
Timo Soininen
Helsinki University of Technology
Software Business and Engineering Institute
POB 9600, FIN-02015 HUT, FINLAND
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Markus Stumptner
University of South Australia, Adelaide
Advanced Computing Research Center
5095 Mawson Lakes (Adelaide) SA, AUSTRALIA
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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