---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tuesday 27 November 2018 Time: 10:15 (till max 12:00) Venue: Room 1311, House 1, ITC, Polacksbacken, Uppsala University ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Constraint Programming for Product Configuration at Tacton Jean-Noel Monette (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-noel-monette-6781583) Tacton Systems AB (http://www.tacton.com) Stockholm, Sweden Abstract: Tacton is a world leader in product configuration, where a configuration engine is used to configure a complex product (e.g., a truck) in order to meet the user's requirements (e.g., the truck should be used mostly on highways) and respect the established rules (e.g., compatibility between wheels and suspensions). A configuration engine helps the user by guiding him through the potentially huge space of feasible configurations (e.g, by presenting a default solution, by marking which values can be selected, or by resolving potential conflicts). To do so, the Tacton configuration engine maps configuration problems to constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) and uses an off-the-shelf constraint programming solver. In this presentation, I will first present Tacton, what product configuration is, and how we help businesses be more effective. I will then describe and contrast existing approaches to product configuration, before focusing on Tacton's constraint-based solution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions at http://www.polacksbacken.uu.se/Find_us