Interactive Configuration Capability in a Sale Support System: Laziness and Focusing Mechanisms
Diego Magro, Pietro Torasso · 2001
The paper discusses the configuration process in a sale support system aimed at helping a customer of a virtual store to assembly the right complex product containing the subcomponents that he/she chose and meeting her/his requirements. Because of the interaction of the customer with the system during the configuration process, we define a lazy configurator able to configure only the portion of the complex product which is directly related to the customer’s requirements. We define also some focusing mechanisms able to use the constraints in order to reduce the search space during the configuration. 1