An automated configuration system (and method) is provided for facilitating
the configuration of desired products, services, or other assemblages that
require users to gather and assimilate disparate knowledge of makes,
models, types, features, codes, and prices of the desired product/service
to be configured. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, configuration
is facilitated through interaction of a user with a frame engine that
performs frame-based inferences to discern stored knowledge of a product
(or the like), as supplemented by a rules-based inference system.
