How to Complete an Interactive Configuration Process?

Author
Year of Publication
2009
Journal
CoRR
Volume
abs/0910.3913
URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3913
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Abstract
When configuring customizable software, it is useful to provide interactive tool-support that ensures that the configuration does not breach given constraints. But, when is a configuration complete and how can the tool help the user to complete it? We formalize this problem and relate it to concepts from non-monotonic reasoning well researched in Artificial Intelligence. The results are interesting for both practitioners and theoreticians. Practitioners will find a technique facilitating an interactive configuration process and experiments supporting feasibility of the approach. Theoreticians will find links between well-known formal concepts and a concrete practical application.