Title
A tool to bridge the gap from functional dependencies to configuration rules translating knowledge on functional restrictions from systems engineers to a configurator for sales and decision makers
Abstract
Facing increasing individual demands and complexity the management of the system configuration and variants is challenging. Especially the interface between systems engineering and sales can be a bottleneck. While configurators help to generate valid system variants, the definition of configuration rules is essential. However the functional dependencies often are implicit knowledge of the systems engineer and are not known to the sales departments. This paper develops a tool to bridge this gap. It supports the systems engineers to store their knowledge using logical dependencies and translates them into a configurator. It moreover enhances the configurator by a comparison to realized and existing projects, to identify similar configurations and thus improve the order acquisition process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116745
SysCon
Keywords
Field
DocType
functional dependencies,system configuration,system variants,variability management,knowledge engineering,system analysis and design,databases,modeling
Configurator,Bottleneck,Structured systems analysis and design method,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Computer science,Implicit knowledge,System configuration,Functional dependency,Software,Knowledge engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1944-7620
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Roth183.77
Nerb, Anton200.34
Daniel Kasperek332.70
Udo Lindemann43413.69