@INPROCEEDINGS{Ranze2002a,
  author = {Ranze, K. Christoph and Scholz, Thorsten and Wagner, Thomas and G{\"u}nter,
	Andreas and Herzog, Otthein and Hollmann, Oliver and Schlieder, Christoph
	and Arlt, Volker},
  title = {A {S}tructure {B}ased {C}onfiguration {T}ool: {D}rive {S}olution
	{D}esigner - {DSD}},
  booktitle = {IAAI02},
  year = {2002},
  editor = {Chien, Steve and Riedl, John},
  pages = {845--852},
  address = {Edmonton, Alberta, Canada},
  month = {July28--August1},
  publisher = {AAAI Press},
  abstract = {In this paper, we describe the configuration tool Drive Solution Designer
	(DSD). The DSD is used by sales engineers of the company Lenze AG
	(www.lenze.com) for the configuration of complex drive systems in
	order to make on-site offers together with the customer. The aim
	of this process is to generate a consistent solution which fulfills
	the functional requirements of the user along with optimization criteria
	such as price and delivery time. The preparation of a technical offer
	requires fundamental knowledge of complex physical and in particular
	technical correlations of drive components, in depth knowledge of
	the product catalog as well as high empirical knowledge about the
	order of the parameterization of the components. In order to meet
	these requirements knowledge-based AI-techniques are required. In
	the DSD we use a domain independent incremental structure-based configuration
	approach with different knowledge representation mechanisms and a
	sophisticated declarative control. Currently DSD is used with great
	success by approx. 150 sales engineers of the company Lenze for the
	design layout task. The introduction of the DSD lead to a drastic
	time reduction for drive solution development and reduces incorrect
	solutions to nearly 0 percent.},
  isbn = {978-0-262-51129-2},
  owner = {pmania},
  timestamp = {2012.11.06}
}