Configuration design is a kind of
design
A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...
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
Systems design interfaces, and data for an electronic control system to satisfy specified requirements. System design could be seen as the application of system theory to product development. There is some overlap with the disciplines of system a ...
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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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