Configuration design is a kind of
design
A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word ''design'' refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something ...
where a fixed set of predefined components that can be interfaced (connected) in predefined ways is given, and an assembly (i.e. designed artifact) of components selected from this fixed set is sought that satisfies a set of requirements and obeys a set of constraints.
The associated ''design configuration problem'' consists of the following three constituent tasks:
# Selection of components,
# Allocation of components, and
# Interfacing of components (design of ways the components interface/connect with each other).
Types of knowledge involved in configuration design include:
* Problem-specific knowledge:
** Input knowledge:
*** Requirements
*** Constraints
*** Technology
** Case knowledge
* Persistent knowledge (knowledge that remains valid over multiple problem solving sessions):
** Case knowledge
** Domain-specific, method-independent knowledge
** Method-specific domain knowledge
** Search-control knowledge
See also
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Systems design
The basic study of system design is the understanding of component parts and their subsequent interaction with one another.
Systems design has appeared in a variety of fields, including sustainability, computer/software architecture, and sociolog ...
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Modular design
Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called ''modules'' (such as modular process skids), which can be independently created, modified, replaced, or exchanged with other modules ...
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Morphological analysis (problem-solving)
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Constraint satisfaction problem
References
* Mittal, S. and Frayman, F. (1989), ''Towards a generic model of configuration tasks'', Proceedings of the 11th IJCAI, San Mateo, CA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann, pages 1395-1401.
* Levin, Mark Sh. (2015) Modular systems design and evaluation. Springer.
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B. Wielinga and G. Schreiber (1997), ''Configuration Design Problem Solving'', IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 12, pages 49–56.
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