Integrating Semantic Web Technologies and ASP for Product Configuration
Published in: Config Workshop
2018
Abstract
Currently there is no single dominating technology for building product configurator systems. While research often focuses on a single technology/paradigm, building an industrial-scale product configurator system will almost always require the combination of various technologies for different aspects of the system (knowledge representation, reasoning, solving, user interface, etc.) This paper demonstrates how to build such a hybrid system and how to integrate various technologies and leverage their respective strengths. Due to the increasing popularity of the industrial knowledge graph we utilize Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL and the Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL)) for knowledge representation and integrate it with Answer Set Programming (ASP), a well-established solving paradigm for product configuration.