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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Product Customization as Linked Data: Demonstration
Authors : Edouard Chevalier, François-Paul Servant
Published in: The Semantic Web: ESWC 2012 Satellite Events
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
Exposing data about customizable products is a challenging issue, because of the number of features and options a customer can choose from, and the many constraints that exist between them. These constraints are not tractable without automatic reasoning. But the configuration process, which helps a customer to make her choice, one step at a time, is a traversal of a graph of partially defined products - that is, Linked Data. This natural yet fruitful abstraction for product customization results in a generic configuration API, in use at Renault, who has begun publishing data about its range in this way. Current achievements and prototypes of forthcoming developments are presented.