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Evolution of Schema and Individuals of Configurable Products

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling (ER 1999)

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The increasing importance of better customisation of industrial products has led to development of configurable products. They allow companies to provide product families with a large number, typically millions of variants. Description and management of a large product variety within a single data model is challenging and requires a solid conceptual basis. This management differs from the schema evolution of traditional databases and the crucial distinction is the role of schema. For configurable products, the schema changes more frequently and more radically. In this paper, the characteristics that distinguish configurable products from traditional data modelling and management are investigated taking into account both the evolution of the schema and the instances. In this respect, the existing data modelling approaches and product data management systems are inadequate. Therefore, a new conceptual framework for product data management systems of configurable products that allows relatively independent evolution of schema and instances is proposed.

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  1. TAI Research Centre and Laboratory of Information Processing Science, Product Data Management Group, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 9555, FIN-02015, Finland

    Tomi Männistö & Reijo Sulonen

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, 298 Coates Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

    Peter P. Chen

  2. Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA

    David W. Embley

  3. INSA-LISI, 20 Avenue Albert Einstein, F-69621, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    Jacques Kouloumdjian

  4. Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, P.O. Box 23087, Provo, UT, 84602-3087, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  5. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, South Australia

    John F. Roddick

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Männistö, T., Sulonen, R. (1999). Evolution of Schema and Individuals of Configurable Products. In: Chen, P.P., Embley, D.W., Kouloumdjian, J., Liddle, S.W., Roddick, J.F. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1727. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48054-4_2

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